linux-kernel - Re: Minor RST rant

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:52:52 +0200
From:   peterz@...radead.org
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: Minor RST rant

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.