try to fix doc deployment (#92)

Fixes #91

- Switches doc deployment to use peaceiris/actions-gh-pages action

Author: IAlibay

.github/workflows/docs.yaml

@@ -51,31 +51,9 @@ jobs:
         python setup.py build_sphinx
 
     - name: deploy docs
-      env:
-        GIT_CI_USER: github-actions
-        GIT_CI_EMAIL: "github-action@users.noreply.github.com"
-        MDA_DOCDIR: build/sphinx/html
-        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        GH_REPOSITORY: github.com/MDAnalysis/GridDataFormats.git
-        GH_DOC_BRANCH: master
-
-      run: |
-        cd ${MDA_DOCDIR}
-
-        rev=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)
-
-        # set up git
-        git init
-        git config user.name ${GIT_CI_USER}
-        git config user.email ${GIT_CI_EMAIL}
-        git remote add upstream "https://${GH_TOKEN}@${GH_REPOSITORY}"
-        git fetch --depth 50 upstream ${GH_DOC_BRANCH} gh-pages
-        git reset upstream/gh-pages
-
-        touch .
-        touch .nojekyll
-
-        # comit and push
-        git add -A .
-        git commit -m "rebuilt html docs from branch ${GH_DOC_BRANCH} with sphinx at ${rev}"
-        git push -q upstream HEAD:gh-pages
+      uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
+      with:
+        github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        publish_dir: ./build/sphinx/html
+        user_name: 'github-actions'
+        user_email: 'github-action@users.noreply.github.com'

doc/source/conf.py

@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@
 # General information about the project.
 project = u'GridDataFormats'
 authors = (u'Oliver Beckstein, Jan Domanski, Jesse Johnson, Max Linke, Tyler Luchko, '
-           u'Dominik Mierzejewski, Giacomo Fiorin, Lily Wang')
-copyright = u'2007-2020, ' + authors
+           u'Dominik Mierzejewski, Giacomo Fiorin, Lily Wang, Josh Vermaas, Irfan Alibay')
+copyright = u'2007-2021, ' + authors
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the