Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: how to upload minutes in markdown format?

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Martin and Deen,

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:09 PM Deen, Glenn (NBCUniversal) <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Spencer,
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> On 8/2/21, 7:37 AM, "WGChairs on behalf of Spencer Dawkins at IETF" <
> [e-mail] on behalf of [e-mail]>
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> Thanks, Robert, for the update and for more details.
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> I haven't been able to force a sane MIME type on my system, but it's worth
> noting a couple of things:
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> ·         If you just cut and paste CodiMD minutes into a text document
> and upload that, you get something that's not formatted the way you'd
> expect Markdown to be formatted, but it's human-readable, and may work well
> enough for you. .
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> My experience has been that it does work for the minutes I’ve posted.
> Here’s the markdown minutes from ADD @ IETF 111 in Data tracker (
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/minutes-111-add/).    It’s in markdown,
> and is formatted correctly and things like links work properly.
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> To get this into datatracker all I did on my Mac was:
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>   (1) cut & paste the minutes from Comid into a minutes.md doc on my mac.
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>   (2)  Do some light editing – such as putting 2 blank likes between
> paragraphs so they show up with 1 in the formatted version.
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>   (3) upload minutes.md to datatracker using chrome.
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> Datatracker recognizes this file as markdown for it lists under other
> version: Markdown as the only choice.
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It may be that Martin and I are the only working group chairs at the IETF
with Windows 10 systems ... 😂

Thank you both for your help! I've made the registry change Martin
described in his note, and I'll check that out the next time I'm uploading
meeting minutes for Cellar.

Best,

Spencer


> I’m not sure what’s different on my Mac system compared to others who are
> having problems getting this to work, but it was really about 10 minutes
> worth of effort to go from Comid to datatracker.
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> -glenn
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