CI: improvements to the docs build

.github/workflows/docs.yml

@@ -7,7 +7,12 @@ on:
     - 'v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+b[0-9]+'
     - 'v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+rc[0-9]+'
   workflow_dispatch:
-
+    inputs:
+      target:
+        description: 'dev or main'     
+        required: true
+        default: 'dev'
+
 jobs:
   build_docs:
     name: Documentation
@@ -19,7 +24,8 @@ jobs:
     env:
       DESC: "Documentation build"
       HV_REQUIREMENTS: "doc"
-      CHANS_DEV: "-c pyviz/label/dev -c bokeh"
+      # conda-forge to install myst-nb ...
+      CHANS_DEV: "-c pyviz/label/dev -c conda-forge"
       CHANS: "-c pyviz"
       MPLBACKEND: "Agg"
       GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -50,14 +56,13 @@ jobs:
           conda config --set always_yes True
           conda install -c pyviz "pyctdev>=0.5"
           doit ecosystem_setup
-          doit env_create ${{ env.CHANS_DEV}} --python=3.7
+          doit env_create ${{ env.CHANS_DEV}} --python=3.8
       - name: doit develop_install
         run: |
           eval "$(conda shell.bash hook)"
           conda activate test-environment
           conda list
           doit develop_install ${{ env.CHANS_DEV}} -o doc
-          conda install -c pyviz "jupyter_client<7"
           conda install -c conda-forge geckodriver selenium awscli
       - name: doit env_capture
         run: |
@@ -85,13 +90,13 @@ jobs:
           conda activate test-environment
           nbsite build --what=html --output=builtdocs --org holoviz --project-name holoviews
       - name: upload dev
-        if: (contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'a') || contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'b') || contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'rc'))
+        if: (github.event.inputs.target == 'dev' || contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'a') || contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'b') || contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'rc'))
         run: |
           eval "$(conda shell.bash hook)"
           conda activate test-environment
           aws s3 sync --quiet ./builtdocs s3://dev.holoviews.org/
       - name: upload main
-        if: (!(contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'a') || contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'b') || contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'rc')))
+        if: (github.event.inputs.target == 'main' || !(contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'a') || contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'b') || contains(steps.vars.outputs.tag, 'rc')))
         run: |
           eval "$(conda shell.bash hook)"
           conda activate test-environment

setup.py

@@ -48,14 +48,6 @@
     "scikit-image"
 ]
 
-if sys.version_info.major > 2:
-    extras_require["examples"].extend(
-        [
-            "pyarrow",
-            "ibis-framework >=1.3",
-        ]  # spatialpandas incompatibility
-    )
-
 # Extra third-party libraries
 extras_require["extras"] = extras_require["examples"] + [
     "pscript ==0.7.1",
@@ -79,6 +71,19 @@
 
 extras_require["unit_tests"] = extras_require["examples"] + extras_require["tests"]
 
+# Moving ibis-framework from `examples` to `unit_tests`
+# because it could not be installed on Linux with conda-forge
+# (https://github.com/conda-forge/ibis-framework-feedstock/issues/54)
+# which was blocking the docs build. ibis-framework isn't
+# required to build the docs anyway.
+if sys.version_info.major > 2:
+    extras_require["unit_tests"].extend(
+        [
+            "pyarrow",
+            "ibis-framework >=1.3",
+        ]  # spatialpandas incompatibility
+    )
+
 extras_require["basic_tests"] = (
     extras_require["tests"]
     + ["matplotlib >=3", "bokeh >=1.1.0", "pandas"]
@@ -91,7 +96,7 @@
 ]
 
 extras_require['doc'] = extras_require['examples'] + [
-    'nbsite >=0.6.8a36',
+    'nbsite >=0.7.1',
     'sphinx',
     'sphinx_holoviz_theme',
     'mpl_sample_data >=3.1.3',