On Mon, Apr 20 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > as promissed in the overlongish thread [1] I would like to > sort out the details how we should enhance the consistency and > parseability of our long descriptions in a poll. I agree that > it is not a good idea to solve technical issues in a poll. > But this is not about a technical issue. There is a fact that > we need a defined structure (technical issue 1) to be able > to parse the long descriptions (whatever library or self invented > code will be used - technical issue 2). But the details how > the structure should look like is more or less an aesthetical > question (because several tools print the long descriptions > in verbose mode) and so the question is about this aesthetics. > If you want to discuss the technical issues please read all mails > of the thread and continue discussing this (preferably with a > new subject). > > Here is the URL of the poll: > > http://doodle.com/2bp8rrh3i35sr4s7 >
Frankly, a poll about micromanaging marks for each level of unordered list does seem to be technical. It is also an implementation detail, and invents our own convention, and options 1 & 2 would cause many more packages to be changed than would just adopting markdown or ReST. The fact that we need more packages changed for options 1 & 2 makes them technically inferior. Is there anyone other than yourself who is actually unhappy about markdown/ReST? And should we have similar silly polls (which I have no intention of promoting by voting in them) for emhpasis? for specifying bold/italic text? For ordered lists? for a myriad of other useful markup already familiar to people who know markdown and ReST? Also, given that there are more output formats than html available for markdown/ReST is another plus point; we might want other output formats for Descriptions than plain ol' html. manoj -- Once the erosion of power begins, it has a momentum all its own. Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org