diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index b657a8d6..10780d2b 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .gitattributes export-ignore
 .github export-ignore
+.readthedocs.yaml export-ignore
 behave export-ignore
 contrib/build_rpm.py export-ignore
 contrib/osc.spec export-ignore
diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9b20fc6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# .readthedocs.yaml
+# Read the Docs configuration file
+# See https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config-file/v2.html for details
+
+version: 2
+
+build:
+  os: ubuntu-20.04
+  tools:
+    python: "3.9"
+
+sphinx:
+   configuration: doc/conf.py
+
+python:
+   install:
+   - requirements: doc/requirements.txt
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index acb5ef06..65bdde91 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 [![unit tests](https://github.com/openSUSE/osc/actions/workflows/unittests.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/openSUSE/osc/actions/workflows/unittests.yaml)
+[![docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/opensuse-commander/badge/?version=latest)](https://opensuse-commander.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)
 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/openSUSE/osc/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/openSUSE/osc)
 [![code climate](https://codeclimate.com/github/openSUSE/osc.png)](https://codeclimate.com/github/openSUSE/osc)
 [![contributors](https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/openSUSE/osc.svg)](https://github.com/openSUSE/osc/graphs/contributors)
diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/contents.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from doc/index.rst
rename to doc/contents.rst
diff --git a/doc/requirements.txt b/doc/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9e737b6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+cryptography
+urllib3
diff --git a/osc/checker.py b/osc/checker.py
index 4acbe9eb..d539ff0d 100644
--- a/osc/checker.py
+++ b/osc/checker.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ import os
 from tempfile import mkdtemp
 from shutil import rmtree
 
-import rpm
-
 
 class KeyError(Exception):
     def __init__(self, key, *args):
@@ -18,6 +16,7 @@ class KeyError(Exception):
 
 class Checker:
     def __init__(self):
+        import rpm
         self.dbdir = mkdtemp(prefix='oscrpmdb')
         self.imported = {}
         rpm.addMacro('_dbpath', self.dbdir)
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@ class Checker:
         # self.ts.Debug(1)
 
     def readkeys(self, keys=None):
+        import rpm
         keys = keys or []
         rpm.addMacro('_dbpath', self.dbdir)
         for key in keys:
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ class Checker:
         if not self.imported:
             raise KeyError('', "no key imported")
 
+        import rpm
         rpm.delMacro("_dbpath")
 
 # python is an idiot