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The best defense against "anyone joining" in my opinion is time and boredom. A standardization takes at least one year and while in the first week everybody and
by qznc 14y ago
The best defense against "anyone joining" in my opinion is time and boredom. A standardization takes at least one year and while in the first week everybody and his pet wants to add their opinion those people usually disappear after a few weeks.
Personally, I have a wishlist of people who should sign the resulting spec. Jeff and Gruber, of course. Furthermore the implementors of solid and/or widely used markdown libraries (Pandoc, MultiMarkdown, Markdown Extra, etc). A few markdown users (Doxygen, Github, ...)
- masklinn 14y ago> I have a wishlist of people who should sign the resulting spec. Jeff and Gruber, of course. Why them? > A few markdown users (Doxygen, Github, ...) Github are also implementors, hence the 2 or 3-years old "github-flavored markdown". https://github.com/vmg/sundown https://github.com/vmg/sundown is their core library, with https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet as the ruby interface.
- qznc 14y agoWhy Jeff and Gruber? Popularity and Politics. Jeff is already called the initiator of the specification although he just reacted to an email of David Greenspan. [0] Without Gruber giving at least a nod of approval it will always have an "unofficial" feel. [0] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markd...