Re: RFC: Adding a SECURITY.md document to the Binutils

J.W. Jagersma via Gdb
2023-04-11T18:19:21Z

On 2023-04-11 17:00, Eli Zaretskii via Gdb wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 10:23:05 -0400
>> Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, siddhesh@gotplt.org, gdb@sourceware.org
>> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
>>
>> On 4/11/23 09:29, Nick Clifton via Gdb wrote:
>>> Hi Eli,
>>>
>>>> Thanks. A minor nit: does it have to be a .md file? Can it be a .txt
>>>> file instead?
>>>
>>> Sure - no problem. In fact until you asked I just assumed that .md == .txt.
>>> But I see no need for any markup capabilities so using .txt files is fine with me.
>>
>> FWIW, I like .md files, they read well as just text, but are also
>> displayed nicely when viewed in contexts like git web views. I don't
>> see any downsides to using it.
>
> The markup gets in the way, unless you use a viewer that supports
> markdown.
>
> But I thought Nick said he didn't intend to use any markup? if so, we
> are talking plain text anyway, and a .md file name will just mislead.

Markdown was designed to be easily readable as plaintext; the syntax is very
similar to how one would format an email. In fact, the document as proposed is
already a valid Markdown document.

For consistency though, I'd suggest to not use any file extension at all. None
of the top-level text files currently have an extension.