This one started in a peculiar way. Paul M. Jones announced a new version of his Producer tool, I had a look at it and saw that it recommended having a changelog called CHANGES.md by default. This irked me a bit because I always use CHANGELOG.md and hardly ever see that as a file name (it’s the little things that matter, right?).

My first thought was to report an issue asking to change the default, but then I thought it’s Paul, he will not just take my word for it, he will want hard facts. So here I am two days later. I queried GitHub’s API for the file listing (only the root directory) of all PHP packages listed on packagist.org.

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Source: SELD