Repository: OpenEnergyPlatform/oeplatform

Issue:
[docs] Implement initial mkdocs config, gh-pages workflow and initial content
## Description of the issue

We decided to migrate the documentation in smaller steps. In the branch #1303 i started to implement a complete migration but this will take more time to be complete.

This PR is now only implementing:
- [x] basic configuration of mkdocs
- [ ] the gh-pages workflow, which updates the documentation every time it is published (possibly also with versions like production, development - at the moment it is updated when the code is merged into development)
- [ ] Add structure and content to show information about API and supported data types


## Workflow checklist
- [x] I am aware of the workflow in [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/OpenEnergyPlatform/oeplatform/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md)



Discussion:

Resolving patch:
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
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-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-#
-# OpenEnergyPlatform documentation build configuration file, created by
-# sphinx-quickstart on Fri Aug 12 20:13:24 2016.
-#
-# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
-# containing dir.
-#
-# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
-# autogenerated file.
-#
-# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
-# serve to show the default.
-
-import os
-import sys
-from unittest.mock import MagicMock
-
-import django
-
-# try:
-#     from oeplatform.oeplatform.securitysettings import SECRET_KEY
-# except:
-#     import logging
-#     logging.error("No securitysettings found. Setting defaults")
-#     DEBUG = True
-#     SECRET_KEY = '0'
-
-
-# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
-# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
-# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
-# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
-
-# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
-
-sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.path.join("..", "..")))
-os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "oeplatform.settings"
-
-django.setup()
-
-# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
-# needs_sphinx = '1.0'
-
-# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
-# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
-# ones.
-extensions = [
-    "sphinx.ext.autodoc",
-    "sphinx.ext.doctest",
-    "sphinx.ext.intersphinx",
-    "sphinx.ext.todo",
-    "sphinx.ext.coverage",
-    "sphinx.ext.ifconfig",
-    "sphinx.ext.viewcode",
-    "sphinx.ext.napoleon",
-]
-
-# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
-templates_path = ["_templates"]
-
-# The suffix(es) of source filenames.
-# You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
-# source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
-source_suffix = ".rst"
-
-# The encoding of source files.
-# source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
-
-# The master toctree document.
-master_doc = "index"
-
-# General information about the project.
-project = "OpenEnergyPlatform"
-copyright = "2023, SIROP"
-author = "Open Energy Family"
-
-# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
-# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
-# built documents.
-#
-# The short X.Y version.
-version = "0.0.4"
-# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = "0.0.4"
-
-# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
-# for a list of supported languages.
-#
-# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
-# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
-language = None
-
-# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
-# non-false value, then it is used:
-# today = ''
-# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
-# today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
-
-# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
-# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
-exclude_patterns = []
-
-# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
-# documents.
-# default_role = None
-
-# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
-# add_function_parentheses = True
-
-# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
-# unit titles (such as .. function::).
-# add_module_names = True
-
-# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
-# output. They are ignored by default.
-# show_authors = False
-
-# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
-pygments_style = "sphinx"
-
-# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
-# modindex_common_prefix = []
-
-# If true, keep warnings as "system message" paragraphs in the built documents.
-# keep_warnings = False
-
-# If true, `todo` and `todoList` produce output, else they produce nothing.
-todo_include_todos = True
-
-
-# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
-
-# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
-# a list of builtin themes.
-html_theme = "alabaster"
-
-# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
-# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
-# documentation.
-# html_theme_options = {}
-
-# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
-# html_theme_path = []
-
-# The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
-# "<project> v<release> documentation".
-# html_title = None
-
-# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
-# html_short_title = None
-
-# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
-# of the sidebar.
-# html_logo = None
-
-# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
-# docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
-# pixels large.
-# html_favicon = None
-
-# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
-# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
-# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
-html_static_path = ["_static"]
-
-# Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
-# .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied
-# directly to the root of the documentation.
-# html_extra_path = []
-
-# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
-# using the given strftime format.
-# html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
-
-# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
-# typographically correct entities.
-# html_use_smartypants = True
-
-# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
-# html_sidebars = {}
-
-# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
-# template names.
-# html_additional_pages = {}
-
-# If false, no module index is generated.
-# html_domain_indices = True
-
-# If false, no index is generated.
-# html_use_index = True
-
-# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
-# html_split_index = False
-
-# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
-# html_show_sourcelink = True
-
-# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
-# html_show_sphinx = True
-
-# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
-# html_show_copyright = True
-
-# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
-# contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
-# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
-# html_use_opensearch = ''
-
-# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
-# html_file_suffix = None
-
-# Language to be used for generating the HTML full-text search index.
-# Sphinx supports the following languages:
-#   'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja'
-#   'nl', 'no', 'pt', 'ro', 'ru', 'sv', 'tr'
-# html_search_language = 'en'
-
-# A dictionary with options for the search language support, empty by default.
-# Now only 'ja' uses this config value
-# html_search_options = {'type': 'default'}
-
-# The name of a javascript file (relative to the configuration directory) that
-# implements a search results scorer. If empty, the default will be used.
-# html_search_scorer = 'scorer.js'
-
-# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
-htmlhelp_basename = "OpenEnergyPlatformdoc"
-
-# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
-
-latex_elements = {
-    # # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
-    # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
-    # # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
-    # 'pointsize': '10pt',
-    # # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
-    # 'preamble': '',
-    # # Latex figure (float) alignment
-    # 'figure_align': 'htbp',
-}
-
-# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
-# (source start file, target name, title,
-#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
-latex_documents = [
-    (
-        master_doc,
-        "OpenEnergyPlatform.tex",
-        "OpenEnergyPlatform Documentation",
-        "open\\_eGo",
-        "manual",
-    )
-]
-
-# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
-# the title page.
-# latex_logo = None
-
-# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
-# not chapters.
-# latex_use_parts = False
-
-# If true, show page references after internal links.
-# latex_show_pagerefs = False
-
-# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
-# latex_show_urls = False
-
-# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
-# latex_appendices = []
-
-# If false, no module index is generated.
-# latex_domain_indices = True
-
-
-# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
-
-# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
-# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
-man_pages = [
-    (master_doc, "openenergyplatform", "OpenEnergyPlatform Documentation", [author], 1)
-]
-
-# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
-# man_show_urls = False
-
-
-# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
-
-# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
-# (source start file, target name, title, author,
-#  dir menu entry, description, category)
-texinfo_documents = [
-    (
-        master_doc,
-        "OpenEnergyPlatform",
-        "OpenEnergyPlatform Documentation",
-        author,
-        "OpenEnergyPlatform",
-        "One line description of project.",
-        "Miscellaneous",
-    )
-]
-
-# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
-# texinfo_appendices = []
-
-# If false, no module index is generated.
-# texinfo_domain_indices = True
-
-# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
-# texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote'
-
-# If true, do not generate a @detailmenu in the "Top" node's menu.
-# texinfo_no_detailmenu = False
-
-
-# Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library.
-intersphinx_mapping = {"https://docs.python.org/": None}
-
-
-class Mock(MagicMock):
-    @classmethod
-    def __getattr__(cls, name):
-        if name == "_mock_methods":
-            return name._mock_methods
-        else:
-            return Mock()
-
-
-MOCK_MODULES = ["shapely"]
-sys.modules.update((mod_name, Mock()) for mod_name in MOCK_MODULES)


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