Initial Gitlab commit for repo init

Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Minimal makefile for Sphinx documentation
+#
+
+# You can set these variables from the command line.
+SPHINXOPTS    =
+SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
+SPHINXPROJ    = ZCashDocumentation
+SOURCEDIR     = source
+BUILDDIR      = build
+
+# Put it first so that "make" without argument is like "make help".
+help:
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M help "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
+
+.PHONY: help Makefile
+
+# Catch-all target: route all unknown targets to Sphinx using the new
+# "make mode" option.  $(O) is meant as a shortcut for $(SPHINXOPTS).
+%: Makefile
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M $@ "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)

README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# ReadtheDocs Overview 
+[![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/zcash/badge/?version=english-docs)](http://zcash.readthedocs.io/en/english-docs/?badge=english-docs)
+
+
+This repo contains material, code, and resources for Zcash ReadtheDocs environment. It is intended as a staging area for existing
+documentation to be updated during the ReadtheDocs migration. Additionally, it provides a local and non-local development environment using [Sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/)
+and [ReadtheDocs](https://readthedocs.org/).
+
+## Installation
+If you are using Ubuntu 16.04, please install the required packages below:
+
+```bash
+sudo apt-get install python-pip
+pip install sphinx_rtd_theme sphinx sphinx-autobuild sphinx_fontawesome
+```
+
+## Setup
+To use the Zcash ReadtheDocs development environment, please issue the following command:
+
+```bash
+git clone ssh://[email protected]/mdr0id/zcash.git
+git checkout zc_readthedocs
+cd ./zcash/doc
+```
+
+Here you will notice some important directories and files:
+
+:file_folder: bitcoin-release-notes
+
+:file_folder: build
+
+:page_facing_up: Doxyfile
+
+:page_facing_up: make.bat
+
+:page_facing_up: Makefile
+
+:file_folder: man
+
+:file_folder: release-notes
+
+:file_folder: source
+
+### Local Development
+There are several options to create targets from the ReadtheDocs development environment. The core functionality 
+is maintained in the below files, located in ```./doc/source/``` :
+
+:page_facing_up: conf.py   (configuration file used to support local/non-local environment)
+
+:page_facing_up: index.rst (root page for ReadtheDocs to generate sibling documents)
+
+#### Build
+If you are current in the ```doc``` dir issue the following command to generate a local html instance of ReadtheDocs:
+
+```bash
+make html
+```
+You can find the generated root html file in ```./doc/build/html/``` as ```index.html```
+
+### Non-Local Development
+This non-local implementation of Zcash ReadtheDocs found [here](http://zcash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
+
+The dashboard corresponding to this environment is located [here](https://readthedocs.org/projects/zcash/)
+
+

bitcoin-release-notes/md_to_rst.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# This script was created to convert a directory full
+# of markdown files into rst equivalents. It uses
+# pandoc to do the conversion.
+#
+# 1. Install pandoc from http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
+# 2. Copy this script into the directory containing the .md files
+# 3. Ensure that the script has execute permissions
+# 4. Run the script
+#
+# By default this will keep the original .md file
+
+FILES=*.md
+for f in $FILES
+do
+  # extension="${f##*.}"
+  filename="${f%.*}"
+  echo "Converting $f to $filename.rst"
+  `pandoc $f -t rst -o $filename.rst`
+  # uncomment this line to delete the source file.
+  # rm $f
+done