[PATCH] doc: use markdown syntax in README

[Kevin Bullock]

> On Sep 25, 2017, at 08:04, David Demelier <markand at malikania.fr> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 21:53 +0900, Yuya Nishihara wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 15:26:13 +0200, David Demelier wrote:
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User David Demelier <markand at malikania.fr>
>>> # Date 1506086724 -7200
>>> #      Fri Sep 22 15:25:24 2017 +0200
>>> # Node ID 274acdd5f4d8d9c68359a99f6caab6efaec415de
>>> # Parent  b90bd9a98c8ba06afdb7f32d434e501d7b3c3929
>>> doc: use markdown syntax in README
>>> 
>>> Using markdown syntax will have better display in most hosting
>>> services
>>> including phabricator.
>> 
>> This change disagrees with 76b171209151. Foozy?
> 
> Hmm,
> 
> It would be interesting to see which kind of file type is supposed to
> be when there is no file extension. It looks like phabricator tries
> markdown by default.
> 
> So the next question would be, markdown or rst? then we can improve the
> readme a little bit more. No matter which kind of syntax we'll use.

As a project we favor rST. We could rename the file README.rst maybe? Would that be sufficient to kick Phabricator into DTRT with displaying it?

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