Add a README

README.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+The CPython Developer's Guide
+=============================
+
+This guide covers how to contribute to CPython. It is known by the
+nickname of "the devguide" by the Python core developers.
+
+The official home of this guide is https://docs.python.org/devguide/,
+but an up-to-date mirror of this repository is also available at
+http://cpython-devguide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (use the mirror if
+you want to verify that a recent change worked well as the copy on
+docs.python.org is updated only a few times a day).
+
+
+GitHub work
+-----------
+
+If you wish to contribute to updating the devguide then please submit
+PRs to the
+[`github` branch](https://github.com/python/devguide/tree/github).
+You can view the rendered version of this branch at
+http://cpython-devguide.readthedocs.io/en/github/.

conf.py

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 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
-exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'venv*', 'env*']
+exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'venv*', 'env*', 'README.rst']
 
 # The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all documents.
 #default_role = None