AsciiDoc is undergoing standardization
asciidoc-py is the original implementation from 2002, with asciidoctor appearing in 2013, and Eclipse Austen is an in-progress implementation for running on the JVM (although I don’t actually see any code in their gitlab instance repo)
What are the meaningful benefits to AsciiDoc over markdown?
From this overview from the asciidoctor documentation I’m not seeing much beyond anchors and cross references are properly supported.
Admonitions, sidebars, and includes might be nice.
Also they hammer home implementations and extensions are a bit random but I don’t think any of this is a concern for our documentation.
The negatives of switching would be converting all existing md documentation to asciidoc and limiting ourselves to 2 (or 3) implementations when markdown has a wide selection, much more usage, much better understanding across the maintainer-base
Either way once we first simplify the documentation story here any kind of converting the format should also be easier