From: peterz@infradead.org
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Minor RST rant
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:52:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200728125252.GW119549@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200724113325.44923f75@lwn.net>
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:33:25AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> I'm not sure what to do other than to continue to push for minimal use of
> intrusive markup.
Perhaps make it clearer in:
Documentation/doc-guide/
because people claim they follow that, but the result is that I get
completely unreadable garbage from them.
Like I've written many times before, I'm starting to loathe RST, it's an
absolute failure. I'm near the point where I'm looking to write a script
that will silently convert any RST crap to plain text in my commit
script.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-28 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-24 17:22 Minor RST rant Steven Rostedt
2020-07-24 17:33 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-07-24 18:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-24 23:46 ` NeilBrown
2020-07-29 12:44 ` peterz
2020-08-05 14:49 ` Vegard Nossum
2020-08-05 15:12 ` peterz
2020-08-06 6:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-06 8:36 ` Vegard Nossum
2020-07-28 12:52 ` peterz [this message]
2020-07-28 15:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-29 9:36 ` peterz
2020-07-24 17:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-24 18:14 ` David Sterba
2020-07-24 18:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-24 23:58 ` NeilBrown
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