Continuous integration testing with travis and drone

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On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 11:25:25 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 04:11:28 UTC, Kapps wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 03:31:13 UTC, Pavel Evstigneev 
>> wrote:
>>> May I improve forum to support markdown?
>>
>> The forum is actually an interface to a newsgroup, so most 
>> forms of markdown would not be supported in the interest of 
>> having a consistent UI for people who use mail / newsgroup 
>> clients vs people who use the online web interface.
>
> Sigh, this always struck me as a problem with the current 
> multi-mode setup, hobbling the forum to the lowest-common 
> denominator capabilities of the older newsgroup/mail readers. 
> Markdown is meant to be readable as a markup language, so maybe 
> it can be supported by the DFeed forum alone:
>
> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
>
> If another, more capable but less readable markup is wanted, 
> another possibility I just thought of is to only accept markup 
> from the web interface and then to have DFeed convert the 
> markup into something readable in plain text when sending to 
> the newgroup/mailing list, ie DFeed keeps its own slightly 
> different version of any particular post.
>
> If Pavel or whoever puts in markdown support in DFeed, which is 
> perfectly readable on its own, or does some sort of conversion 
> of markup for the newsgroup/mail, are there any objections to 
> sending straight markdown or this conversion workaround?

As a fan of Markdown, I'd advise against using it for the forums. 
Many important posters use email instead.