Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
Using a hanging indent is much more readable. This means we
won't format as asciidoc anymore, but since we don't have a
working system for extracting these comments anyway, it's
probably more important to just make the source readable.
Yeah.
Those who want to strip the leading " * " to turn it into AsciiDoc
would need to also parse out the hanging indent and format into
AsciiDoc, which is not entirely an unreasonable thing to ask.