Zulip Chat Archive
Stream: mathlib4
Topic: subfolder README.md's
Mario Carneiro (May 20 2025 at 12:22):
Riccardo Brasca said:
Well, it is surely strange that there is a file,
Mathlib/Algebra/README.md, that basically nobody knows about and that contains an hard rule.
I want to echo this and make a thread to discuss it, because AFAIK we have never used README.md files in subfolders, and we should make a policy about this (use it consistently or not at all).
Robin Carlier (May 20 2025 at 12:24):
I'm voting in favor of using them consistently.
Jz Pan (May 20 2025 at 12:41):
I think there was a thread discussing doc-gen support for README.md
Jz Pan (May 20 2025 at 12:46):
Robin Carlier (May 20 2025 at 12:46):
If the goal of these readmes is to contain development lore, I think it's OK if they're not included in the user documentation (which I feel is what doc-gen generates)
Last updated: Dec 20 2025 at 21:32 UTC