This folder contains the source content of the User Guide and Contributor Guide. These are both published to https://datafusion.apache.org/ as part of the release process.
It's recommended to install build dependencies and build the documentation inside a Python virtualenv.
python3 -m venv venv pip install -r requirements.txt
If using uv the script can be run like so without needing to create a virtual environment:
uv run --with-requirements requirements.txt bash build.sh
Run the provided script to build the HTML pages.
# If using venv, ensure you have activated it ./build.sh
The HTML will be generated into a build directory. Open build/html/index.html in your preferred browser, e.g.
Preview the site on Linux by running this command.
# On macOS open build/html/index.html # On Linux with Firefox firefox build/html/index.html
To make changes to the docs, simply make a Pull Request with your proposed changes as normal. When the PR is merged the docs will be automatically updated.
This documentation is hosted at https://datafusion.apache.org/
When the PR is merged to the main branch of the DataFusion repository, a github workflow which:
asf-site branch in this repository.The Apache Software Foundation provides https://datafusion.apache.org/, which serves content based on the configuration in .asf.yaml, which specifies the target as https://datafusion.apache.org/.