On 12/6/21 05:43, John Hawkinson wrote:
It is not until the last paragraph of that file that any mention is made of pull requests ("[p]lease do not create [them]")
After more thought I went back to this first suggestion, and put "please do not create pull requests" at the start of the CONTRIBUTING file, going back to plain-text format. Although this is not as spiffy-looking on GitHub, it should be good enough to address what remains of the original problem. There is some advantage to sticking with plain text over Markdown as tzdb already has two other markup formats - HTML5, and man pages - and proliferation of markup formats has its own problems. Had GitHub supported CONTRIBUTING.html it might have been a different matter. I did leave a few Markdownisms in CONTRIBUTING (when they look fine in text too), and backported some of the minor improvements to CONTRIBUTING that I had made to the Markdown version. I'm attaching both a 'git diff -b' between last week's CONTRIBUTING and the new, and the newly-installed proposed patches.