Re: An improved README experience for PostgreSQL

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Andrew Atkinson <andyatkinson@gmail.com>, "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Samay Sharma <samay@tembo.io>

Date: 2024-05-14T16:12:26Z

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Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and SECURITY.md.
- dec9d4acdb7d 18.0 landed
Revise the style of a paragraph in README.md.
- 84d80663199b 17.0 landed
Convert README to Markdown.
- 363eb059966d 17.0 landed

On 2024-May-14, Tom Lane wrote:

> I don't have a position on whether we want
> these additional files or not; but if we do, I think the best answer
> is to stick 'em under .github/ where they are out of the way but yet
> updatable by any committer.

+1 for .github/, that was my first reaction as well after reading the
link Peter posted.

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