Repository: pyodide/pyodide

Issue:
Add documentation to ReadTheDocs
Hi @mdboom 🐍 

To increase visibility and discovery of the project, perhaps creating a sphinx site on RTD using the Markdown files in the repo would be helpful.

If you have interest, I could do a quick doc PR this week.


Discussion:
Just realized there are GitHub docs. Brief docs on RTD would be helpful too.
Thanks, Carol!  I definitely agree we need better and more discoverable docs. I'm curious what advantages you see to readthedocs?  I'm wary to add more moving parts to the deployment, but maybe there's a reason to...?
@mdboom Sorry for the delay. The Python science community, as you know, will search for docs on RTD. I'm trying to remember back to when I filed this issue but I seem to recall that it took me a while (> 15 minutes) to realize that there were docs. :wink:

Resolving patch:
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Configuration file for the Sphinx documentation builder.
+#
+# This file does only contain a selection of the most common options. For a
+# full list see the documentation:
+# http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/config
+
+# -- Path setup --------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#
+import os
+import sys
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("."))
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(".."))
+
+# -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
+
+project = "Pyodide"
+copyright = "2019, Mozilla"
+author = "Mozilla"
+
+from src import pyodide
+
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+release = version = pyodide.__version__
+
+
+# -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#
+# needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = ["sphinx.ext.autodoc", "m2r"]
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ["_templates"]
+
+# The suffix(es) of source filenames.
+# You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
+#
+# source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
+source_suffix = [".rst", ".md"]
+
+rst_prolog = ""
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = "index"
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#
+# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
+# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
+language = None
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+# This pattern also affects html_static_path and html_extra_path.
+exclude_patterns = ["_build", "Thumbs.db", ".DS_Store", "README.md"]
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = None
+
+
+# -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+#
+html_theme = "sphinx_rtd_theme"
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+#
+html_theme_options = {
+    "display_version": True,
+    "prev_next_buttons_location": "bottom",
+    # Toc options
+    "collapse_navigation": True,
+    "sticky_navigation": True,
+    "navigation_depth": 2,
+}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+html_static_path = ["_static"]
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, must be a dictionary that maps document names
+# to template names.
+#
+# The default sidebars (for documents that don't match any pattern) are
+# defined by theme itself.  Builtin themes are using these templates by
+# default: ``['localtoc.html', 'relations.html', 'sourcelink.html',
+# 'searchbox.html']``.
+#
+# html_sidebars = {}
+
+
+rst_prolog += """
+.. important::
+    From your browser, you can
+    `try Pyodide in an Iodide notebook <https://alpha.iodide.io/>`_.
+    The `Iodide documentation site <https://iodide-project.github.io/docs/>`_
+    provides additional user and developer documentation.
+"""
+
+# -- Options for HTMLHelp output ---------------------------------------------
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = "Pyodidedoc"
+
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ------------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+    # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+    #
+    # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+    # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+    #
+    # 'pointsize': '10pt',
+    # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+    #
+    # 'preamble': '',
+    # Latex figure (float) alignment
+    #
+    # 'figure_align': 'htbp',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+    (master_doc, "Pyodide.tex", "Pyodide Documentation", "Mozilla?", "manual")
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ------------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [(master_doc, "pyodide", "Pyodide Documentation", [author], 1)]
+
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+    (
+        master_doc,
+        "Pyodide",
+        "Pyodide Documentation",
+        author,
+        "Pyodide",
+        "One line description of project.",
+        "Miscellaneous",
+    )
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for Epub output -------------------------------------------------
+
+# Bibliographic Dublin Core info.
+epub_title = project
+
+# The unique identifier of the text. This can be a ISBN number
+# or the project homepage.
+#
+# epub_identifier = ''
+
+# A unique identification for the text.
+#
+# epub_uid = ''
+
+# A list of files that should not be packed into the epub file.
+epub_exclude_files = ["search.html"]
+
+
+# -- Extension configuration -------------------------------------------------


Test patch: