Looking for Sphinx theme/templating expert

[Peeter Piegaze]

Does anyone have any advice on how to find people with Sphinx templating and theme creation skills?
My company is looking for someone with these very specific skills for a focused single-project contract job.
I am wondering if there is a search strategy that we should be adopting or a community somewhere (apart from here) we should connect with

[Mikko Ohtamaa]

Hi Peeter,

Sphinx community is way too small to have any people how are dedicated to work there, so you need a lot of luck to find an expert you can hire.

Sphinx templating is based on Jinja engine which is the same what Django is using. Anyone who can work with Django HTML websites will be able to learn to work with Sphinx.

That being said and after done some templating work for my own company, Sphinx templating especially with autodoc is difficult to work with, mainly due to lack of documentation, examples. Expect to spend a week or two just for the learning curve. For individual questions, this mailing group is good.

Some starting pointers

- Furo, one of my favourite Sphinx themes you can customise https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo

- Our customisation https://tradingstrategy.ai/docs/ and source https://github.com/tradingstrategy-ai/docs

- Some ealier discussion about changing the search engine (search is the sore point of stock Sphinx) https://groups.google.com/g/sphinx-users/c/33XRSwrMeec

Br,

Mikko