# Overview

This is the PAWS data pipeline documentation for the developers and administrators working on the [PAWS PDP project](https://github.com/CodeForPhilly/paws-data-pipeline) or running instances of it. PAWS staff and other end users, please use the [end user documentation](https://paws-data-pipeline.gitbook.io/user/).

It is maintained in the GitBook format within the docs/ directory of the project's main Git repository, and new versions are published automatically upon commits or merges to the `documentation-dev` branch in [the project's GitHub repo](https://github.com/CodeForPhilly/paws-data-pipeline).

To contribute to this book, please commit directly or open a pull request against the `documentation-dev` branch of github.com/CodeForPhilly/paws-data-pipeline.


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