On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Yuri Takhteyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Well, except that people use it for blogs and wikis and they need some
>  of those extra features, and if we don't agree on some of them (like
>  definition lists and tables) then we end up with a hundred different
>  ways of doing the same thing.  E.g., as was discussed a few weeks ago,
>  markdown's handling of code block is nice if you are editing your text
>  in an editor that supports block indentation, but is quite
>  disfunctional if you are doing it in a web form, especially if most of
>  your content is snippets of code.  We talked about this, and what now?
>   Some people might go and implement an extension for {{{...}}} for
>  their favourite implementation.  Others will go and implement
>  something else.

So, as a policy person, what I haven't seen is a proposal for making
decisions about all of this stuff.  What say you mardkown-discuss?
Should we have a council of implementation maintainers?  Yikes.
Probably not.  What about an IETF-like "rough consensus and running
code/spec/etc." model? best, Joe

-- 
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
UC Berkeley School of Information
http://josephhall.org/
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