first version of the doc generated by copilot

Author: qchapp

.github/workflows/deploy_docs.yml

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+name: mkdocs-ci
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - feature/docs
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  pages: write
+  id-token: write
+
+concurrency:
+  group: "pages"
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.10'
+          cache: 'pip'
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install mkdocs-material
+
+      - name: Build with MkDocs
+        run: mkdocs build --strict
+
+      - name: Upload artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          path: ./site
+
+  deploy:
+    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/feature/docs'
+
+    environment:
+      name: github-pages
+      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: build
+    steps:
+      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
+        id: deployment
+        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4