docs: Support deploying Sphinx docs to GitHub Pages(no gh-pages branch)

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kaindl <[email protected]>

Author: bernhardkaindl

.github/workflows/docs-deploy-to-gh-pages.yml

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+# Based on the GitHub example deployment workflow for static pages
+name: Build and Deploy Static HTML Docs to GitHub Pages
+
+on:
+  # Runs on pushes targeting the default branch
+  push:
+    branches: ["master"]
+
+  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  pages: write
+  id-token: write
+
+# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run
+# in-progress and latest queued.
+# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production
+# deployments to complete.
+concurrency:
+  group: "pages"
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  docs-to-gh-pages:
+    environment:
+      name: github-pages
+      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.12'
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
+
+      - name: Build Sphinx documentation
+        run: |
+          make -C docs html
+      - uses: actions/configure-pages@v5
+      - uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          path: docs/build/html
+
+      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
+        id: deployment
+        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4