Issue
When Markdown support was initially added in #15, Warehouse had somewhat questionable Markdown rendering. At this point, however, it appears that those issues have been resolved, and things like syntax highlighting now work.
As such, given the relative popularity of Markdown even for Python projects, it might make more sense for new to default to creating a README.md rather than a README.rst.
Issue
When Markdown support was initially added in #15, Warehouse had somewhat questionable Markdown rendering. At this point, however, it appears that those issues have been resolved, and things like syntax highlighting now work.
As such, given the relative popularity of Markdown even for Python projects, it might make more sense for
newto default to creating aREADME.mdrather than aREADME.rst.