If HPR contributors took to the idea of submitting Markdown notes I think that would be a tremendous leap forward.

I imagine there would still need to be a human intervention step, though a much simplified one and this could include things like a consistency check if it was thought necessary.

I admire your dedication to the Community News. It was good to have three stooges on the episode this month rather than the usual two.

Personally, I'd visualised Pushd, Popd and Dirs as a sort of (comedy) legal firm ...