pydata / pydata/xarray

Migrate from nbsphinx to myst, myst-nb

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I think we should switch to MyST markdown for our docs. I've been using MyST markdown and MyST-NB in docs in other projects and it works quite well.

Advantages:

  1. We get HTML reprs in the docs (example) which is a big improvement. (#6620)
  2. I think many find markdown a lot easier to write than RST

There's a tool to migrate RST to MyST (RTD's migration guide).

Describe the solution you'd like

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Describe alternatives you've considered

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the MyST markdown documentation, MyST-NB documentation, and Read the Docs' RST-to-MyST migration guide. Compare the current nbsphinx-based documentation setup with the proposed migration, and define completion as the docs building with MyST and MyST-NB while retaining existing content and enabling the cited HTML representations.

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Assessment

Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, markdown, python
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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