This was necessary when Django backends were still supported, but since
its removal in AiiDA v2.0 just loading the ORM no longer actually needs
to connect to a database. In principle, the documentation no longer
needs a profile whatsoever, except for aiida-quantumespresso the
AutoAPI still needs it because in loading the specifications of certain
Process classes, a profile is loaded. So the docs conf.py now loads
an empty dummy profile for this purpose.
This was necessary when Django backends were still supported, but since its removal in AiiDA v2.0 just loading the ORM no longer actually needs to connect to a database. In principle, the documentation no longer needs a profile whatsoever, except for
aiida-quantumespressothe AutoAPI still needs it because in loading the specifications of certainProcessclasses, a profile is loaded. So the docsconf.pynow loads an empty dummy profile for this purpose.