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Consolidates current developer documentation in a versioned Sphinx Developer Guide and makes those sources canonical.

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  • Moves the Python, estimator, C++/CUDA, and benchmarking guides out of wiki/.
  • Removes obsolete historical guidance and folds useful definition-of-done requirements into the relevant topical guides.
  • Modernizes the C++ guide around current RAFT, RMM, logging, testing, and multi-GPU conventions.
  • Publishes the primarily internal C++ API reference through Sphinx and Breathe with explicit stability and input-validation disclaimers.
  • Replaces the separate libcuml Doxygen site with a version-matched redirect to the integrated reference.

Supersedes #8544.

Closes #8590

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@divyegala, could you please review this PR, particularly the updated C++ developer guidance and how the internal C++ API is presented? It makes the C++ API’s current stability and input-validation guarantees explicit.

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  • Documentation

    • Added a centralized Developer Guide covering contribution, Python, C++/CUDA development, benchmarking, and API references.
    • Added generated C++ API documentation with guidance on supported usage and API stability.
    • Updated documentation build instructions, profiling guidance, estimator examples, and benchmark workflows.
    • Consolidated Python and C++ documentation into a unified site with updated navigation.
  • Build & CI

    • Improved local and automated documentation builds, including combined Python/C++ output.
  • Documentation Cleanup

    • Removed the legacy wiki documentation and updated references to current Developer Guide content.

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The change consolidates developer documentation in Sphinx, adds C++/CUDA and C++ API sections, updates Python and benchmarking guidance, integrates Doxygen XML through Breathe, and removes legacy wiki documentation.

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Developer documentation consolidation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Unified documentation build pipeline
.gitignore, build.sh, ci/build_docs.sh, cpp/Doxyfile.in, docs/source/conf.py, dependencies.yaml, conda/environments/*, docs/README.md
Doxygen now generates XML for Breathe. Sphinx now publishes combined Python and C++ documentation. The build includes a libcuml redirect and XML cleanup.
Developer Guide structure and C++ documentation
docs/source/developer_guide/*, docs/source/index.rst, wiki/*
Added Developer Guide navigation, C++/CUDA development guidance, and C++ API namespace pages. Removed legacy wiki documentation.
Python and benchmarking guide updates
docs/source/developer_guide/python/*, docs/source/developer_guide/benchmarking.md
Updated validation, testing, profiling, estimator, output-type, decorator, and benchmark guidance.
Repository guidance and documentation wiring
.coderabbit.yaml, .github/*, CONTRIBUTING.md
Updated documentation paths, ownership rules, workflow file groups, and contributor guidance to use the current Developer Guide locations.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Suggested reviewers: jameslamb

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b8674

One estimator example currently fails because NumPy is not imported, causing a NameError for readers who run it. The impact is limited to documentation usage and should be fixed before merging.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 3 files. (23 skipped: 2… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: consolidating developer documentation in Sphinx.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the documentation migration, C++ API publication, removal of obsolete guidance, and Sphinx integration.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy the main objectives in [#8590]. They add a top-level Developer Guide, consolidate current documentation in Sphinx, remove obsolete wiki content, publish the internal C++ API throug…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The workflow, dependency, build, ownership, and documentation configuration changes support the Sphinx documentation consolidation and do not introduce unrelated scope.
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# Call fit() with a numpy array as the input
np_arr = np.ones((10,))
np_arr = np.ones((10, 1))

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Import NumPy in this example.

The code block calls np.ones((10, 1)), but it does not import NumPy. Running the documented example raises NameError: name 'np' is not defined. Add import numpy as np to the example.

Proposed fix
+import numpy as np
 import cupy as cp
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In `@docs/source/developer_guide/python/estimators.md` at line 500, Add the
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