The Laminas Project has close to 200 repositories between the main project, Laminas API Tools, and Mezzio. It's a lot to maintain, and keeping on top of incoming patches can be a gargantuan task, much less creating releases.

That's why this past year, we've spent a bunch of time on streamlining our processes; we want to be able to review, merge, and release changes quickly and confidently. To that end, we have developed a number of GitHub Actions to make these processes as easy as possible for our maintainers.

One of the final tasks in prepping for the Expressive 1.0 release was setting up the documentation site. We'd decided to use GitHub Pages for this, and we wanted to automate builds so that as we push to the master branch, documentation is deployed.

The process turned out both simple and bewilderingly difficult. This post is intended to help others in the same situation.