From 7064be15a16240c3318a9c54141387d40ecb69f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Pursehouse <david.pursehouse@sonymobile.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 17:37:52 +0900
Subject: Update the README

- Rewrite introduction
- Rename "REST API" section to "Usage" and add summary of example
- Mention dependency on the requests library
- Switch order of "Installation" and "Prerequisites" sections
- Mention removal of ssh support

Change-Id: Iebf015e554a0de751abeba0f5394ed59f32585d5
---
 README.rst | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

(limited to 'README.rst')

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 4ab041c..767cd1d 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -7,15 +7,11 @@ Pygerrit - Client library for interacting with Gerrit Code Review
 .. image:: https://pypip.in/d/pygerrit/badge.png
         :target: https://crate.io/packages/pygerrit/
 
-Pygerrit is a Python library to interact with the
-`Gerrit Code Review`_ system's REST API.
+`Gerrit Code Review`_ offers a feature-rich REST API.  Pygerrit provides a
+simple interface for clients to interact with Gerrit via the REST API.
 
-Installation
-------------
-
-To install pygerrit, simply::
-
-    $ pip install pygerrit
+Note that from version 0.3.0 Pygerrit no longer includes support for the Gerrit
+ssh interface.  For ssh support please use version 0.2.5 or earlier.
 
 
 Prerequisites
@@ -24,6 +20,16 @@ Prerequisites
 Pygerrit has been tested on Ubuntu 10.4 and Mac OSX 10.8.4, with Python 2.6.x
 and 2.7.x.  Support for other platforms and Python versions is not guaranteed.
 
+Pygerrit depends on the `requests`_ library.
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+To install pygerrit, simply::
+
+    $ pip install pygerrit
+
 
 Configuration
 -------------
@@ -38,11 +44,12 @@ For instructions on how to obtain the HTTP password, refer to Gerrit's
 `HTTP upload settings`_ documentation.
 
 
-REST API
---------
+Usage
+-----
 
-Gerrit offers a feature-rich REST API.  This library provides a simple
-interface for clients to interact with Gerrit via the REST API::
+This simple example shows how to get the user's open changes, authenticating
+to Gerrit via HTTP Digest authentication using an explicitly given username and
+password::
 
     >>> from requests.auth import HTTPDigestAuth
     >>> from pygerrit.rest import GerritRestAPI
@@ -54,6 +61,7 @@ interface for clients to interact with Gerrit via the REST API::
 Refer to the `example`_ script for a more detailed example of how the
 REST API interface works.
 
+
 Copyright and License
 ---------------------
 
@@ -65,6 +73,7 @@ Licensed under The MIT License.  Please refer to the `LICENSE`_ file for full
 license details.
 
 .. _`Gerrit Code Review`: https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/
+.. _`requests`: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
 .. _example: https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/pygerrit/blob/master/example.py
 .. _`HTTP upload settings`: https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.8/user-upload.html#http
 .. _LICENSE: https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/pygerrit/blob/master/LICENSE
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