docs: better docs, mv doxygen to sphinx

This patch refactors the VPP sphinx docs
in order to make it easier to consume
for external readers as well as VPP developers.

It also makes sphinx the single source
of documentation, which simplifies maintenance
and operation.

Most important updates are:

- reformat the existing documentation as rst
- split RELEASE.md and move it into separate rst files
- remove section 'events'
- remove section 'archive'
- remove section 'related projects'
- remove section 'feature by release'
- remove section 'Various links'
- make (Configuration reference, CLI docs,
  developer docs) top level items in the list
- move 'Use Cases' as part of 'About VPP'
- move 'Troubleshooting' as part of 'Getting Started'
- move test framework docs into 'Developer Documentation'
- add a 'Contributing' section for gerrit,
  docs and other contributer related infos
- deprecate doxygen and test-docs targets
- redirect the "make doxygen" target to "make docs"

Type: refactor

Change-Id: I552a5645d5b7964d547f99b1336e2ac24e7c209f
Signed-off-by: Nathan Skrzypczak <nathan.skrzypczak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Yourtchenko <ayourtch@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 76 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/aboutvpp/releasenotes/v17.07.rst b/docs/aboutvpp/releasenotes/v17.07.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..aaa4d5afec5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/aboutvpp/releasenotes/v17.07.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+Release notes for VPP 17.07
+===========================
+
+More than 400 commits since the 1704 release.
+
+Features
+--------
+
+-  Infrastructure
+
+   -  make test; improved debuggability.
+   -  TAB auto-completion on the CLI
+   -  DPDK 17.05
+   -  python 3 support in test infra
+
+-  Host stack
+
+   -  Improved Linux TCP stack compatibility using IWL test suite
+      (https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-720)
+   -  Improved loss recovery (RFC5681, RFC6582, RF6675)
+   -  Basic implementation of Eifel detection algorithm (RFC3522)
+   -  Basic support for buffer chains
+   -  Refactored session layer API
+   -  Overall performance, scale and hardening
+
+-  Interfaces
+
+   -  memif: IP mode, jumbo frames, multi queue
+   -  virtio-user support
+   -  vhost-usr; adaptive (poll/interupt) support.
+
+-  Network features
+
+   -  MPLS Multicast FIB
+
+   -  BFD FIB integration
+
+   -  NAT64 support
+
+   -  GRE over IPv6
+
+   -  Segement routing MPLS
+
+   -  IOAM configuration for SRv6 localsid
+
+   -  LISP
+
+      -  NSH support
+      -  native forward static routes
+      -  L2 ARP
+
+   -  ACL multi-core suuport
+
+   -  Flowprobe:
+
+      -  Add flowstartns, flowendns and tcpcontrolbits
+      -  Stateful flows and IPv6, L4 recording
+
+   -  GTP-U support
+
+   -  VXLAN GPE support for FIB2.0 and bypass.
+
+Known issues
+------------
+
+For the full list of issues please refer to fd.io
+`JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__.
+
+Issues fixed
+------------
+
+For the full list of fixed issues please refer to:
+
+- fd.io `JIRA <https://jira.fd.io>`__
+- git `commit log <https://git.fd.io/vpp/log/?h=stable/1707>`__
+