![]() | Kurt Seifried (He/Him) Chief Blockchain Officer and Director of Special Projects Cloud Security Alliance |
So after spending two decades reading CVE descriptions, I'd like to propose the following:1) We support line returns (\n)2) We support markdown formatting in the text description, notes and other large text fields meant for human consumptionCVE as you may or may not know strips line returns from data submitted (you can see in this commit for example: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelist/commit/3a5c3c750474806777a0ebb5f10d871fc16fd33b#diff-85d12d6ac7fa63abd0832b1ffe2edf0bd393fd620488d66001e5d4759daa096e)and of course, there is no support for formatting. I'd like to suggest markdown formatting for two simple reasons: it's simple and most people know it and people can drop HTML directly in if needed, but it makes treating the text field safely a bit easier. The other advantage of line returns and markdown is even if a human has to look at the raw JSON it's still reasonably readable. Any strong objections/concerns/thoughts? Please let me know.
--Josh