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Add feature-flags page
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automatic updation of docsfor feature flags
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My project requires different settings than those available under Admin
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Read the Docs offers additional flag settings. To enable these settings,
please open a request issue on our `github`_ and we will change the settings for the project.
Read more about these flag settings :doc:`here <guides/feature-flags>`.

.. _github: https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org

I get import errors on libraries that depend on C modules
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Feature Flags
=============

Read the Docs offers some additional flag settings which can be only be configured by the site admin.
These are optional settings and you might not need it for every project.
By default, these flags are disabled for every project.
A seperate request can be made by opening an issue on our `github`_ to enable
or disable one or more of these featured flags for a particular project.

.. _github: https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org

Available Flags
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I think we could use a rst role to keep the list updated, something like #4451 (comment) https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/pull/4451/files#diff-d4de2c39f7f56cdad5a95921ae1398ec

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@stsewd
I didn't get it.
Do you want to render the whole list (with description) with rst role? or just the description? or any other thing?

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List and description

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@stsewd
I have tried it and i suppose that the function for "role" is working fine. However I am not able to get the output at the docs.
Can you please help me in this. I am unable to find the mistakes.
The output I'm getting is

featureflags:

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@stsewd
It was a wonderful idea. I managed to implement it successfully and now the flags with their description are rendering as desired automatically.
Here is the image of the feature flags docs page - image

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I love adding features like this to our docs! 💯

I would suggest a change here: instead of using a role to put all of the different feature flags in a single block, this should mimic what the django setting role does.

Also, if you were to implement a feature like this normally, you'd use a directive, not a role. I do think role would be preferred here if you were to match how we are using the django setting role. It allows us to put more commentary around the output.

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@agjohnson
I am a little confused.
This is what I'm getting now.

  • In the rst file, the use of the role should be like this. 
    ``FEATURE_1``: :featureflags:`FEATURE_1`
``FEATURE_2``: :featureflags:`FEATURE_2`
``FEATURE_3``: :featureflags:`FEATURE_3`
    which will render the feature flags with its description as nodes.Text.

But doing this, we will lost the automatic rendering of the docs.
Also, the docs will look like this - image

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I don't think we want to fully automate things, there might be some feature flags we don't want documented or don't need documented.

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Thank you for the explanation.
I have followed your advice and changed the pattern of the role similar to djangosettings role.


USE_SPHINX_LATEST:
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Use latest version of Sphinx in building the project.

USE_SETUPTOOLS_LATEST:
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Use latest version of setuptools in building the project.

ALLOW_DEPRECATED_WEBHOOKS:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Allow deprecated webhook views.

PIP_ALWAYS_UPGRADE:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Always run:

.. code-block:: bash

pip install --upgrade

before building the project.

SKIP_SUBMODULES:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Skip git submodule checkout.

DONT_OVERWRITE_SPHINX_CONTEXT:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Do not overwrite context vars in conf.py with Read the Docs context.

ALLOW_V2_CONFIG_FILE:
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Allow to use the v2 of the configuration file.

MKDOCS_THEME_RTD:
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Use Read the Docs theme for MkDocs as default theme.