Russ Cox

No change in consensus, so **[accepted](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#accepted)**. 🎉 This issue now tracks the work of implementing the proposal. — rsc for the proposal review group

fyi /cc @randall77 @cherrymui @dsnet

There are two problems with this GitHub repo: 1. it claims to host Go standards and does not, in the sense that these are in no way official standards 2....

As a point of clarification, the top comment suggests that the rewrite originated in #51082. This is not quite true. The rewrite of ` `` ` and ` '' `...

This proposal has been added to the [active column](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#active) of the proposals project and will now be reviewed at the weekly proposal review meetings. — rsc for the proposal review...

I understand the points you are both making. The point I am making is that doc comments have a certain semantic meaning as defined by how they render in HTML....

I'm not completely ignoring this - I have a program running to gather data we need and haven't gotten through the results yet.

I extracted all the doc comments containing single forward or backward quotes from my corpus of code from proxy.golang.org, totaling 90GB. I've attached a [shuffled random sample](https://pkg.go.dev/rsc.io/tmp/shuffle) of 100k comments...

All in all, I think this is a giant mess, mostly apparently caused by people shoehorning comment syntaxs from other languages into Go files. I don't think we have to...

As a reminder, from a Go project policy perspective, we've already set the criteria for keeping an operating system supported. That discussion was #19002, and the documented policy is at...