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Documentation Build workflow (samsledje/D-SCRIPT)

The Documentation Build workflow from samsledje/D-SCRIPT, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: samsledje/D-SCRIPT.github/workflows/docs-build.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the Documentation Build workflow from the samsledje/D-SCRIPT repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

workflow (.yml)
name: Documentation Build

on:
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  # Allow manual triggering
  workflow_dispatch:

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  docs-build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
    - name: Checkout repository
      uses: actions/checkout@v4

    - name: Set up Python 3.11
      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
      with:
        python-version: "3.11"

    - name: Install dependencies
      run: |
        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
        pip install -e ".[docs]"

    - name: Build documentation
      working-directory: docs
      run: |
        # Build HTML documentation with warnings treated as errors
        sphinx-build -W -b html source build/html

    - name: Check for build artifacts
      run: |
        # Verify that the documentation was built successfully
        if [ ! -f "docs/build/html/index.html" ]; then
          echo "Error: Documentation build failed - index.html not found"
          exit 1
        fi
        echo "Documentation build completed successfully"

    - name: Upload documentation artifacts
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
      if: always()
      with:
        name: documentation-html
        path: docs/build/html/
        retention-days: 30

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Estimated ~20% faster on cache hits, plus fewer wasted runs and a safer supply chain. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

name: Documentation Build
 
on:
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ "main" ]
  # Allow manual triggering
  workflow_dispatch:
 
permissions:
  contents: read
 
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
 
jobs:
  docs-build:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
 
    steps:
    - name: Checkout repository
      uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
    - name: Set up Python 3.11
      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
      with:
        cache: 'pip'
        python-version: "3.11"
 
    - name: Install dependencies
      run: |
        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
        pip install -e ".[docs]"
 
    - name: Build documentation
      working-directory: docs
      run: |
        # Build HTML documentation with warnings treated as errors
        sphinx-build -W -b html source build/html
 
    - name: Check for build artifacts
      run: |
        # Verify that the documentation was built successfully
        if [ ! -f "docs/build/html/index.html" ]; then
          echo "Error: Documentation build failed - index.html not found"
          exit 1
        fi
        echo "Documentation build completed successfully"
 
    - name: Upload documentation artifacts
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
      if: always()
      with:
        name: documentation-html
        path: docs/build/html/
        retention-days: 30
 

What changed

What Latchkey heals here

This workflow has steps that commonly fail on transient issues (network, registries, flaky browsers). On Latchkey managed runners they are detected, retried, and self-healed instead of failing your build:

This workflow runs 1 job per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow