I've been talking about automating our docs building for longer than I'd care to think about at this point. This all got started when our docs wouldn't build there due to non-pypi package requirements for autodoc.

Turns out that there is a way to work around this [[http://blog.rtwilson.com/how-to-make-your-sphinx-documentation-compile-with-readthedocs-when-youre-using-numpy-and-scipy/|by using mock to stub out the problematic deps]].

Update the conf.py and building mechanisms to work without any non-pypi packages and get the docs building on rtd.org again. Once this is working, remove the old docs and preferably put a redirect to the new rtd.org docs.