Comment by echelon

This. Projects need to stop inventing their own root level files and directories.

Stop polluting the root dir.

I'm not a fan of the name "well-known", but at least it's a convention [1].

I think it'd be great if we took something like XDG [2] and made it common for repositories, build scripts, package managers, tooling configs, etc.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8615

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory