Read the Docs Blog
Posts by Eric Holscher
Read the Docs Community downtime due to migrations to AWS
- 05 February 2021
- Bend, Oregon
Update: The migration was successful and the site has been fully restored as of 4PM PST.
We wanted to make you aware that on Friday, February 12th at 1pm PST (4pm EST, 21:00 UTC), Read the Docs Community (readthedocs.org) will be having a scheduled dashboard downtime of approximately 4 hours.
Pull Request Builders available for all users
- 27 January 2021
- Bend, Oregon
We’re excited to announce that Pull Request building is now available for all Read the Docs users. We have been working on this feature for over a year, and having it available for all our users is a major milestone.
This feature allows users to confirm documentation builds correctly for all of their commits, not just ones merged into branches that are activated on Read the Docs. This moves documentation into your continuous integration pipeline, and improves the workflow for everyone working on documentation.
Read the Docs for Business Maintenance Window - February 5
- 25 January 2021
- Bend, Oregon
Update: This maintenance window has concluded at 5:40 PM PST.
We wanted to make you aware that on Friday, February 5 at 5:00pm PST (8:00pm EST, Saturday 01:00 UTC), Read the Docs for Business (readthedocs.com) will be having a scheduled downtime of approximately 2 hours.
Read the Docs is hiring for multiple positions
- 06 January 2021
- Bend, Oregon
Read the Docs received a grant to support scientific software at the beginning of this year. As part of this, we are hiring for two new positions related to the grant work:
A frontend developer with design skills
Announcing Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant to Expand the Interoperability of Scientific Documentation
- 19 November 2020
- Portland, Oregon
We’re excited to announce that Read the Docs has received a $200,000 grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Essential Open Source for Science (EOSS) program. Read the Docs is the largest open source documentation hosting platform in the world. We provide hosting for many scientific software packages, including some that have received EOSS funding in the past. You can read more about this round of grants in the official announcement.
Our grant has two parts:
Shipping a CDN on Read the Docs Community
- 18 May 2020
- Portland, Oregon
You might have noticed that our Read the Docs Community site has gotten faster in the past few weeks. How much faster likely depends on how far away you live from Virginia, which is where our servers have traditionally lived.
We have recently enabled a CDN on all Read the Docs Community sites, generously sponsored by CloudFlare. This post will talk a bit more about how we implemented this, and why we’re excited about it.
Read the Docs Offsite 2019
- 20 June 2019
- Portland, Oregon
The Read the Docs team just finished our first offsite ever in April of 2019. We all gathered together in person for the first time, and talked about the future of the project.
A picture will show this better than I can: