Re: An improved README experience for PostgreSQL

From: Andrew Atkinson <andyatkinson(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, samay(at)tembo(dot)io
Subject: Re: An improved README experience for PostgreSQL
Date: 2024-02-26 20:40:05
Message-ID: CAG6XLEn0CroZoRgJ9M-O8nENYbyF87zHxBKXbWhQ_T85gV0zLg@mail.gmail.com
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Thanks for the feedback Nathan and Tom. Samay also suggested adding the
patch. I've added a .patch with the file for consideration.

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 2:30 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)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
>

Attachment Content-Type Size
0001-Adds-modernized-README.md.patch application/octet-stream 1.7 KB

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