jorisvandenbossche commented on code in PR #36296:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/36296#discussion_r1253038478


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docs/source/developers/documentation.rst:
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@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@ These two steps are mandatory and must be executed in order.
    not sufficiently comprehensive. Portions of the Python API documentation
    will also not build without CUDA support having been built.
 
+.. note::
+
+   If you are working on the Python documentation and are building the 
documentation
+   with ``pyarrow`` build from source on macOS Monterey, Python section of the
+   documentation might not be included in the ``_build/html``. In this case run
+   ``python -m pip install ../python --quiet --no-dependencies python`` before
+   running the ``make html`` command.

Review Comment:
   This is essentially installing the package in non-editable mode, right? 
Maybe mention that explicitly to clarify what the command is exactly doing
   
   Also, what does the `--no-dependencies python` do?



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