On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 12:14 PM Andrey Semashev via Boost
Please no. Markdown is a very limited and poorly documented format.
Well, I have more bad news for you. Quickbook is unmaintained as is its required Boostbook support. If you think Markdown is unpopular (it isn't) you should see how many projects outside of Boost use Quickbook. Long-term I am moving to Asciidoc and focusing my energy on making sure that Boost authors who want to use Asciidoc have an easy time of it, and get great results.
Also, I oppose to having preference to GitHub or any other particular service provider in basic Boost facilities, such as documentation format.
"Github flavored markdown" is not tied to GitHub it just became so insanely popular that it is a widely used dialect. Python's markdown processing tools for example use Github flavored markdown.
Boost should be easy to move between service providers.
Fortunately this proposal doesn't change the ease of movement, but I generally disagree with this statement. Making "Boost easy to move between service providers" has a cost, and that cost is paid by everyone on a continuous basis. Moving to another service provider also has a cost, but it is a singular event with extremely low frequency. Since the majority of our energy is spent on not-moving-to-other-service-provider things, we can afford to make switching service providers expensive as long as we get great value from not worrying about ease of movement. Thanks