[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40591: Stop Encouraging Modified Markdown for Plugins

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#40591: Stop Encouraging Modified Markdown for Plugins
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 Reporter:  jhabdas       |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Plugins       |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                |
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 https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/how-your-readme-txt-
 works/#markdown

 The current standards for creating TXT files with modified markdown is
 silly and they look terrible when people drop into OSS repos on GitHub.
 Right now I'm having two manage a separate README file s because I don't
 want individuals to have a bad experience when they land on my plugin when
 searching through Git or another DCVS.

 Please fix this. We need markdown file support and standardization. And
 please deprecate modified Markdown. Doing that (and not even linking to a
 spec, as shown in the developer docs above) seems downright senseless to
 me in 2017.

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