Muawia Khan 2b39566a4b Problem: Some configurations are defunct (#2338)
* Problem: BigchainDB config has stale/deprecated parameters

- Remove `keyring` and `keypair` from config
- Update tests
- Add `tendermint` config

* Fix flake8

* Update some naming conventions and redundant changes

* Remove redundant routine `fast_query`

* Remove deprecated parameters and descriptions

* remove some more unwanted code

* Problem: Two flake8 errors made Travis fail

Solution: Fix the two flake8 errors

* Address comments

- Remove reference of nodes_except_me and me_private and me
  as attributes of BigchainDB instances
- Update and re-add test(s)
- Do not introduce `tendermint` in configuration instead handle that
  in a separate PR along with docs

* Address comments

- Remove tests that are already covered with 2.0
- Remove tests that are no longer relevant
- Add TODO for more cleanup

* Remove tendermint config from configure command
2018-06-08 15:50:50 +02:00
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The BigchainDB Documentation Strategy

  • Include explanatory comments and docstrings in your code. Write Google style docstrings with a maximum line width of 119 characters.
  • For quick overview and help documents, feel free to create README.md or other X.md files, written using GitHub-flavored Markdown. Markdown files render nicely on GitHub. We might auto-convert some .md files into a format that can be included in the long-form documentation.
  • We use Sphinx to generate the long-form documentation in various formats (e.g. HTML, PDF).
  • We also use Sphinx to generate Python code documentation (from docstrings and possibly other sources).
  • We also use Sphinx to document all REST APIs, with the help of the httpdomain extension.

How to Generate the HTML Version of the Long-Form Documentation

If you want to generate the HTML version of the long-form documentation on your local machine, you need to have Sphinx and some Sphinx-contrib packages installed. To do that, go to a subdirectory of docs (e.g. docs/server) and do:

pip install -r requirements.txt

If you're building the Server docs (in docs/server) then you must also do:

pip install -e ../../

Note: Don't put -e ../../ in the requirements.txt file. That will work locally but not on ReadTheDocs.

You can then generate the HTML documentation in that subdirectory by doing:

make html

It should tell you where the generated documentation (HTML files) can be found. You can view it in your web browser.

Building Docs with Docker Compose

You can also use Docker Compose to build and host docs.

$ docker-compose up -d bdocs

The docs will be hosted on port 33333, and can be accessed over localhost, 127.0.0.1 OR http:/HOST_IP:33333.