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+# Documentation Maintenance Overview
+
+The documentation found in this directory is hosted at:
+
+- https://cosmos.network/docs/
+
+and built using [VuePress](https://vuepress.vuejs.org/) from the Cosmos website repo:
+
+- https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos.network
+
+which has a [configuration file](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos.network/blob/develop/docs/.vuepress/config.js) for displaying
+the Table of Contents that lists all the documentation. 
+
+Under the hood, Jenkins listens for changes in ./docs then pushes a `docs-staging` branch to the cosmos.network repo with the latest documentation. That branch must be manually PR'd to `develop` then `master` for staging then production. This process should happen in synchrony with a release.
+
+The `README.md` in this directory is the landing page for
+website documentation.