From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
cc: Andrew Atkinson <andyatkinson@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
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Subject: Re: An improved README experience for PostgreSQL
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Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> I think this would be nice.  If the Markdown version is reasonably readable
> as plain-text, maybe we could avoid maintaining two READMEs files, too.
> But overall, +1 to modernizing the README a bit.

Per past track record, we change the top-level README only once every
three years or so, so I doubt it'd be too painful to maintain two
versions of it.

Having said that, any proposal for this ought to be submitted as
a patch, rather than expecting people to go digging around on
some other repo.

			regards, tom lane