Backport #8424 #8494: Publish API docs to docs.nvidia.com

[josephine-wolf-oberholtzer]

Backports #8424 and #8494 to the release/26.08 branch so we can get 26.08 docs onto docs.nvidia.com.

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added automated API documentation publication for the cuml and libcuml projects.
  • Pull request builds now support dry-run documentation publishing to validate publication settings before release.
  • Documentation publishing now uses the upcoming release workflow configuration for consistent versioned API documentation.

Walkthrough

The build and pull request workflows add API documentation publication after docs-build. Build runs publish for branch references. Pull requests run in dry-run mode. Both target cuml and libcuml through the release/26.08 shared workflow.

Changes

API documentation publishing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure API documentation publication .github/workflows/build.yaml, .github/workflows/pr.yaml	The workflows add publish-api-docs after docs-build, pass Akamai and AWS credentials, target cuml and libcuml, and use vars.VERSION_MAP. Build publication disables dry-run mode. Pull request publication enables dry-run mode and becomes a pr-builder dependency.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 88d11

This PR updates documentation publishing workflows for the 26.08 release branch. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains based on the supplied evidence.

Suggested reviewers: bdice, gforsyth, jameslamb

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the backport and the primary change: publishing API documentation to docs.nvidia.com.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains that the pull request backports the changes to publish 26.08 API documentation to docs.nvidia.com. It matches the changeset.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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