Markdown support for charters

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keyword_sprint owner:pusateri@bangj.com type_enhancement | by lars@eggert.org

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Could we allow charters to be edited in Markdown? That would greatly improve their web rendering, and ASCII representations can be easily obtained, too.

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Issue migrated from trac:2695 at 2022-03-04 07:08:35 +0000

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@rjsparks@nostrum.com commented

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See the thread at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/wgchairs/9UowL13aj-TBh1zg_Rd2Ie-tE5g.

While this wouldn't be particularly hard, it will require choosing what we mean when we say "markdown".

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@rjsparks@nostrum.com changed component from doc/ to doc/charter-

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@henrik@levkowetz.com commented

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When addressing this, an indication of upload processing (defaulting to none) should be added to the upload form. We already have support in other parts of the datatracker for one format in the 'Structured Text' class of formats, reStructuredText, and it would be trivially easy to add support for that at the same time. We should however not be making guesses about the processing needed, so an explicit processing choice is needed.

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@pusateri@bangj.com commented

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I believe this should just work now that the markdown changes have been committed. If it doesn't, I can fix this. The charter needs to be submitted as a ".md" file for the mime type to be recognized as text/markdown.

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@rjsparks@nostrum.com commented

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I think the markdown changes that have been made only apply to meeting materials.

I don't see where in the processing chain it's been made available for charters. Am I missing something? On what page would the upload you mention above happen? I would expect it to be at somewhere like /doc/charter-ietf-stir/submit/recharter/.

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@pusateri@bangj.com commented

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Just looked into this more and the charter upload form in ietf/doc/views_charter.py is completely different than the other areas where files can be uploaded. It looks pretty messy to change this to accept markdown. Is there a reason we need to be able to paste in the text into a text field? I think only allowing upload would be better because we could then determine a MIME type.