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-name: Publish docs
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-      - main
-      # for testing the GH Action without merging to main,
-      # in some cases
-      - test-publish-snapshots
-      - docs/v*
-    tags: ["*"]
-
-jobs:
-  documentation:
-    name: Documentation
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-    if: github.repository == 'apache/incubator-pekko'
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          # we don't know what commit the last tag was it's safer to get entire repo so previousStableVersion resolves
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Set up JDK 11
-        uses: olafurpg/setup-scala@v13
-        with:
-          java-version: adopt@1.11
-      - name: Publish
-        run: |-
-          eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
-          echo $SCP_SECRET | base64 -d > /tmp/id_rsa
-          chmod 600 /tmp/id_rsa
-          ssh-add /tmp/id_rsa
-          # using Scala 2.13 here to avoid the infamous problem with missing AskSupport in classpath
-          sbt -Dpekko.genjavadoc.enabled=true "+~ 2.13 publishRsync"
-        env:
-          SCP_SECRET: ${{ secrets.SCP_SECRET }}
-
-      # comment out email actions until we have an email address to use (and we need to get INFRA to whitelist dawidd6/action-send-mail)
-      #- name: Email on failure
-      #  if: ${{ failure() }}
-      #  uses: dawidd6/action-send-mail@v3
-      #  with:
-      #    server_address: smtp.gmail.com
-      #    server_port: 465
-      #    username: ${{secrets.MAIL_USERNAME}}
-      #    password: ${{secrets.MAIL_PASSWORD}}
-      #    subject: "Failed: ${{ github.workflow }} / ${{ github.job }}"
-      #    to: akka.official@gmail.com
-      #    from: Akka CI (GHActions)
-      #    body: |
-      #     Job ${{ github.job }} in workflow ${{ github.workflow }} of ${{github.repository}} failed!
-      #      https://github.com/${{github.repository}}/actions/runs/${{github.run_id}}