On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 02:46:11PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: >> 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.
Sorry, my suggestion wasn't meant to imply that I have any strong concerns about maintaining two README files. If we can automate generating one or the other, that'd be great, but I don't see that as a prerequisite to adding a Markdown version. -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
