I have been desiring to have the documentation that I write for my various
projects on GitHub render to HTML when using a
.markdown extension, just like they support doing for special files like
README.markdown.
At first, I thought they’d eventually get around to it and that is the best I could hope for as surely they are too busy to respond to a non-paying customer like me. Then I learned they the used the Lighthouse ticket system to manage their project and took public submissions for features.
Before logging a feature request I did some searching and found [a ticket alre ady](http://logicalawesome.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8570-github/tickets/479 -render-marked-up-files-like-readmes) out there requesting exactly this same feature that I wanted. So I just added my own comments to the ticket to give it a +1.
After a little back and forth I learned it was implemented tonight (just a week after my first comment). Good to see such responsive development.
[An example of this feature](http://github.com/paltman/django- aws/tree/master/docs/tags.markdown) can be found in my django- aws project which is simple app to provide some template tags to provide Amazon Web Services information a la boto.