> On 26 Feb 2024, at 21:30, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Nathan Bossart <nathandboss...@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.
It wont be, and we kind of already have two since there is another similar README displayed at https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/. That being said, a majority of those reading the README will likely be new developers accustomed to Markdown (or doing so via interfaces such as Github) so going to Markdown might not be a bad idea. We can also render a plain text version with pandoc for release builds should we want to. -- Daniel Gustafsson
