Magic words in comments (e.g. bug NNNN) should be documented

[Brad Bollenbach]

Various pieces of text in Launchpad (e.g. bug comments and descriptions) have certain text automagically linkified, e.g:

  http://...
  bug 42

etc.

These magic words should be publically documented.

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

We should document them in the Help tabs as suggested by Amir in bug 124162

[Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)]

To add the help to the bug filing page, we'll need to find a way to add HTML links to interface declarations, in this case bug.py.

[danmb (danmbox)]

5 years and no fix... amazing when you think that even the most basic wiki has a page describing wiki syntax. And this is low priority?!

[Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)]

Hello Dan. Thanks for the comment. We use "low" for those bugs that we know we won't get to in the next six months.

I've assigned myself this bug as I should be able to fix it in the next week or so.

[Matthew Revell (matthew.revell)]

This is something the new Usability and Communications Specialist can handle as an introductory task.

[Paul Sokolovsky (pfalcon)]

Cross-posting from #124162 which is marked as duplicate of this bug (though it's actually not, it's topic must be lack of text formatting capabilities in Launchpad):

It's bad that there's no special syntax for preformatted text. Sometimes, when you paste logs, they got badly misformatted.

See for example https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-android-infrastructure/+bug/940226/comments/1 - all substrings starting with SSH: are separate lines in the original.

[anatoly techtonik (techtonik)]

Yes. Absense of quick help on comment writing form is a major misfeature.