Contribution guide#151
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| We aim to support popular, stable, lightweight plain-text markup languages. Our priorities for language support: | ||
| - New languages should work as similar to the Markdown implementation as possible | ||
| - Users should be able to read and maintain tasks without writing excessive markup or understanding implicit behavior | ||
| - The implementer wants to actually maintain `xc` tasks using the new language (we won't add languages just to have them) |
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It would be nice if people bringing a new language are willing to maintain their implementation. However, I don't expect for people to maintain their language that they implement initially. Which sort of means 2 things:
- People can contribute language implementations without any strings attached (woo).
- However! I'll only accept languages that I think are ubiquitous enough that I'm willing to take the maintenance burden.
A good litmus test is probably - if github don't support the markup language, it is highly unlikely I'll accept the PR.
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I made a clarification here incorporating that link & info.
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Closes #66
Why?
Now that org-mode is supported, there's precedent for adding further languages. I thought to close the loop by adding a HOWTO for future language contributors, but there's no contribution guide yet, so I took a stab at that as well.
What?