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+Submodule Transition
+====================
+
+Moving away from submodules.
+
+At the cost of some release-time overhead, there are several benefits
+the transition provides projects:
+
+* Local builds - Projects will be able to build and view there docs
+  locally, as they would appear on the OPNFV Docs website.
+* Reduced build time - Patchset verification will only run against
+  individual projects docs, not all projects.
+* Decoupled build failures - Any error introduced to project's docs
+  would not break builds for all the other projects
+
+Steps
+-----
+
+To make the transition the following steps need to be taken across the
+project repository, releng repository and opnfvdocs repository.
+
+In your project repo:
+
+#. Add the following files:
+
+   *docs/conf.py*
+
+   .. literalinclude:: files/conf.py
+
+   *docs/conf.yaml*
+
+   .. literalinclude:: files/conf.yaml
+
+   *docs/requirements.txt*
+
+   .. literalinclude:: files/requirements.txt
+
+   *tox.ini*
+
+   .. literalinclude:: files/tox.ini
+
+   *.gitignore*
+
+   .tox/
+   docs/_build/*
+
+   *docs/index.rst*
+
+   if it doesn't exist along with other index file for directories
+   (release, development)
+
+In the releng repository:
+
+#. Follow the steps in `this guide`_ from the Linux Foundation Releng team on
+   bootstrapping a new ReadTheDocs (RTD) project.
+
+   This will ensure RTD will update each time docs patches are merged to
+   the repository.
+
+.. note: In step 4 of the guide, the file this job should be added to is:
+         **jjb/project/project-jobs.yaml**, where project is the OPNFV project.
+
+.. _`this guide`: https://docs.releng.linuxfoundation.org/en/latest/project-documentation.html#bootstrap-a-new-project
+
+
+In the opnfvdocs repository:
+
+#. Add a intersphinx link to the opnfvdocs repo:
+
+   Here 'example' should be replaced with the name of your project.
+
+   .. code-block:: python
+       :name: docs/conf.py
+
+       intersphinx_mapping['example'] = ('http://opnfv-example.readthedocs.io', None)
+
+#. Ensure all references in opnfvdocs are using `:ref:` and not
+   directly specifying submodule files (No `:doc:` or 'submodules/...'
+   in `.. toctree:`)
+
+#. Remove the submodule from opnfvdocs::
+
+    diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
+    index 846ab245..aab01642 100644
+    --- a/.gitmodules
+    +++ b/.gitmodules
+    @@ -151,4 +150,0 @@
+    -[submodule "docs/submodules/releng"]
+    -       path = docs/submodules/releng
+    -       url = ../releng
+    -       branch = master