Am Do., 15. Jan. 2026 um 12:07 Uhr schrieb Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]>: > > Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]> writes: > > > * It's OK to support only NEWS and NEWS.md. MarkDown is what is thousands > > of > > young programmers are learning (because of GitHub — we may like it or > > not), > > not Org, not AsciiDoc, not ReStructured Text. > > Agreed. But if it is really easy to support *.org for Org/outline too, > that works better in Emacs, I don't see why not. And there seems to be > some GitLab/GitHub/Forgejo support for non-markdown modes.
People likely want to use the same markup format throughout the files of a project. As Org has (many) more features than Markdown (and can even serve as the source of TexInfo documentation), for some documents there may not be a real choice between Org and Markdown, so it would be nice if the NEWS document can be in Org mode as well. And, as Simon said, it works out of the box in Emacs and on GitHub. Marc
