Comment 109 for bug 240067

On 4 June 2011 01:35, Geoff <email address hidden> wrote:
>> I can definitely see how people would want richer formatting in
>> announcements.
>
> The way announcements are currently set up is so that you may link to an
> external website. The way it is done now in some projects is that they
> will put a "teaser" in the announcement, and then link to and external
> blog/website/etc. If we were to provide a wiki, they could simply link
> to a wiki page.

That's true, but I think ideally you would be able to have rich
formatting within the announcement itself, rather than just a link. I
think the key thing here is that the concept of rich formatting
shouldn't be limited just to the wiki area. It doesn't matter so much
which one is done first.

>> It's not obvious to me that people want to put their
>> announcements into Bazaar branches just to get wiki formatting in
>> them.
>
> Well, you wouldn't necessarily upload via bazaar, since in the "must
> have" section it mentions editing via web UI.
>
> Actually, I was just planning on designating one of the project's code
> branches as the wiki branch, and then displaying the contents on
> http://wiki.launchpad.net/project-name. Of course, this would only
> display pages ending in .md, .txt, etc, and it wouldn't show a directory
> listing...

Launchpad wants to get away from using different subdomains for
different functional areas, so it should probably instead be
launchpad.net/project-name/+wiki/... or something. This would be a
good place to start. I think the LEP would benefit from describing
what is going to be done in the first phase.