Re: Migrating to sourcehut - what's missing?

[Theodor Thornhill]

On 23 December 2021 10:53:40 CET, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:22:47 +0100
>> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
>> CC: larsi@gnus.org, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, philipk@posteo.net,
>>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> >From my POV, the problem is not with how mailing lists are handled
>> >there, the problem is with how email communications are handled when
>> >those are involved in discussing patches and other issues.  AFAIU,
>> >this is what Lars was flagging, not the way mailing lists are hosted
>> >there: we don't intend to move the Emacs mailing lists to sourcehut,
>> >we just want to move the bug tracker and its related functionalities,
>> >and that includes sending and receiving email.
>> 
>> Yes, this would mean that emacs devs would have to adopt a markdown based 
>> approach, which I assume also is unwanted. 
>
>We need to use Markdown in email messages?  That sounds tough on us,
>isn't it?  I thought sourcehut was handling email exchange as
>first-class citizen, which would mean that any format, including plain
>text, is handled in some reasonable fashion.
>

You don't need to, but to get syntax highlighting for diffs in todo you 
currently have to, yes. The author expressed this as a shortcoming of the 
current implementation, but without plans for its conception. 


>> I'm just glad this thread yielded some results, undecisive or not
>
>Yes, thanks.

No problem - let's revisit this some other time, perhaps