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#14: Simplify issue text fields
- Contents
HTML/kupu and STX are both overkill for entering issues, and may confuse users. Most of the functionality is not needed. Instead, something like the Ploneboard text format, which recognises URLs and basic formatting, will suffice.
- Proposed by
- Martin Aspeli
- Seconded by
- Alexander Limi
- Proposal type
- Architecture
- Assigned to release
- State
- completed
Motivation
Having full rich-text issue details is overkill, and makes it more difficult to send sane issue emails. Kupu may be confusing to some users, and may encourage insane formatting that makes issue histories harder to evaluate.
At the same time, plain text is a little too plain. You want at least to be able to do hyperlinks that are clickable, and preserve indentation etc.
Proposal
Ploneboard ships with a portal transform that takes plain text, preserves whitespace, and makes hyperlinks and mail links clickable. We should use this in Poi instead of the full RichText.
This will obviously require migration.
Risks
(let the flaming begin)
Plain Kupu
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