Re: Converting README documentation to Markdown

On 2024-Sep-10, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 8:51 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
> > Since there doesn't seem to be much interest in going all the way to Markdown,
>
> Just for the record, I suspect going to Markdown is actually the right
> thing to do.

I had occasion to go look at our doxygen this morning, whose box is as
of a couple of days ago running Debian Trixie, and realized that it is
now showing the README.md files in the documentation hierarchy -- for
example,
https://doxygen.postgresql.org/md_src_2backend_2storage_2aio_2README.html
The plain README files don't get this treatment.

I don't know if it was already working in the previous version, or it is
only that I happened to notice it now. (*)

Anyway, I wonder if this fact would give more fuel to the idea of making
our README files gain a .md extension.

(*) Now that I look closer, this might be very old actually, because
Bookworm had doxygen 1.9.4 and trixie has 1.9.8 -- very little
difference there. I guess I only noticed this now because we now have
README.me and the aio/README.md file.

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