I would rather write POD and convert it to ROFF (and commit the outcome to the repository, since not everybody needs a Perl installation) than write directly in

I would rather write POD and convert it to ROFF (and commit the outcome to the repository, since not everybody needs a Perl installation) than write directly in ROFF, no matter what macro package to use. But I actually like the initiative. I see far too little man pages for new projects lately, and ROFF is not that difficult to learn and use.