Bug 1088059

This is probably not something we'd provide as a Red Hat-specific customization to Bugzilla, as it sounds like a problem that users of other Bugzilla instances would also encounter.  Therefore, I think it would be better to file this RFE with the upstream Bugzilla project at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla so that a solution can benefit users of all Bugzilla instances.

There is already a bug upstream for it. Only filed 8 and a bit years ago :) This might get some traction now that upstream supports the Preview tab in comments.

The bug shows that someone implemented it as a drop-in extension https://github.com/columbusmonkey/Bugzilla-Extension-Markdown

Is there any mileage in adding this extension to our test instance of bugzilla, so we can see if it does a good enough job for the original reporter's request ?

(In reply to Daniel Berrange from comment #3) 
> Is there any mileage in adding this extension to our test instance of
> bugzilla, so we can see if it does a good enough job for the original
> reporter's request ?

IMO. no. There is a GSOC upstream project for this, and I would much rather take this from upstream than use the limited development resources that Red Hat have.

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/koosha/5757334940811264

  -- simon

Closing this RFE in favour of the upstream RFE.  If this feature makes it into the upstream 4.5/5.0 branch, we'll happily accept it when we move to that branch.

A superseding Bugzilla ticket referenced at https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/switch-to-bugzilla-harmony/35269/6 may be relevant to this. I'd like to add it directly to this issue, but as https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/does-redhat-bugzilla-support-relating-reports-without-dependency/112114 explains, this instance doesn't appear to provide that functionality.