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From: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Atkinson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: An improved README experience for PostgreSQL
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:30:18 -0600
Message-ID: <20240226183018.GA2109010@nathanxps13> (raw)
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 11:31:19AM -0600, Andrew Atkinson wrote:
> Hello Hackers. We’re proposing an improved README for PostgreSQL that
> includes more helpful links for prospective PostgreSQL contributors and has
> a nicer presentation.
> 
> Although development does not take place on GitHub or GitLab for
> PostgreSQL, many developers might view the PostgreSQL source code using one
> of those mirrors (I do myself). Since both support Markdown files, a
> Markdown version of the README (as README.md) gets presentational benefits
> that I think are helpful.

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.

-- 
Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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