Display README on project homepage if placed under docs/
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Proposal
Currently, GitLab only displays the README on the project homepage if the README.md file is placed in the root. But it is also very common to place your README under a docs/ directory. However, if the README is placed under docs/ then GitLab won't display it.
GitHub, for example, has already supported this behaviour for many years. It would be beneficial for the community if GitLab also did.
Why is this important?
If you use Backstage tech docs for example you're supposed to place all of your docs under e.g. docs/ and that's why you also would want to place your README there. It is possible to use symlinks to solve some problems but you will still have problems with relative paths in dev vs prod.
Implementation proposal
Search first in the project root for a README.md, if not found then search for it under docs/.