Hi everyone,

Thanks for your feedback, passion, and advocacy for this suggestion.

We would love to support the availability of choices when it comes to README formats in Bitbucket Data Center. However, we have made a decision that this improvement is the wrong direction for our product. We remain committed to being an open company, whether it's with regards to feature requests or bugs in our software. 

So if we are not going to implement this feature in Bitbucket Data Center, what are we doing instead? We remain committed to helping software teams deliver high quality software faster in an increasingly competitive and changing world. We believe that great developer tools are a key element of modern software development in the hands of good teams with smart processes. To that end, we've made improvements already and are planning to work in the following areas that help with problems teams face now:

• Innovations that increase developer productivity and reduce complexity despite an ever evolving technology landscape.
• Optimisations to performance that provide a more powerful, scalable, enterprise-grade Data Center experience
• Enhancements to security that provide teams with more controls and transparency to support their organisation’s security posture

For up to date information on what specific features are coming soon on our roadmap and planned timelines please visit our roadmap.

If we’ve missed the opportunity to address this request and your comments properly when you submitted it, we sincerely apologise. We remain committed to being an open company, whether it's with regards to feature requests or bugs in our software. We will strive to answer product management questions and feature requests sooner, frequently, publicly, and more decisively.

If you have any questions or concerns feel free to contact me directly.

Cheers,

Sarah Bolt

Product Manager - Bitbucket Data Center