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> I would say this is an easy decision. Obviously no existing packages
> shall change their READMEs, file extension nor contents, if they don't
> want to.
The proposal I rejected, as stated, called for changing all existing
packages. I rejected that.
That is not what the proposal said. It was to change the default
recommended format to Markdown or similar, and that if those who want
to use non-formated, can.
> As markdown is good readable as plain text as well _and_ it is kind of
> an industry standard - why not actually suggesting markdown as *default*
> _text file_ format in GNU with an option to use plaintext if wanted?
Changing the default, does not mean that every package has to make any
changes.
If people want to make a proposal that would NOT require changing all
existing packages, that would have to permit plain-text NEWS files
as well as markdown-formated NEWS files.
Nobody was making such a proposal, that is something you came up with.
