Fix: Broken docs generation on readthedocs.org

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -168,6 +168,12 @@ test-3.11-all:
         path: coverage.xml
   allow_failure: true
 
+test-docs:
+  <<: *only-default
+  image: python:3.9-bullseye
+  script:
+  - tox -e docs
+
 deploy_production:
   stage: deploy
   image: python:3.10-bullseye

docs/development/dev_setup/aa-dev-setup-wsl-vsc-v2.md

@@ -150,7 +150,9 @@ sudo redis-server --daemonize yes
 
 ```eval_rst
 .. note::
-    WSL does not have an init.d service, so it will not automatically start your services such as MySQL and Redis when you boot your Windows machine. For convenience we recommend putting the commands for starting these services in a bash script. Here is an example: ::
+    WSL does not have an init.d service, so it will not automatically start your services such as MySQL and Redis when you boot your Windows machine. For convenience we recommend putting the commands for starting these services in a bash script. Here is an example:
+
+    ::
 
         #/bin/bash
         # start services for AA dev

docs/requirements.txt

@@ -2,13 +2,15 @@
 sphinx>=3.2.1,<4.0.0
 sphinx_rtd_theme==0.5.0
 recommonmark==0.6.0
+Jinja2<3.1
 
 # Autodoc dependencies
 django>=3.2,<4.0.0
 django-celery-beat>=2.0.0
+django-redis-cache
 django-bootstrap-form
 django-sortedm2m
-django-esi>=3,<4
+django-esi>=3,<5
 celery>5,<6
 celery_once
 passlib

tox.ini

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [tox]
 skipsdist = true
 usedevelop = true
-envlist = py{37,38,39,310,311}-{all,core}
+envlist = py{37,38,39,310,311}-{all,core}, docs
 
 [testenv]
 setenv =
@@ -21,3 +21,11 @@ commands =
     core: coverage run runtests.py allianceauth.authentication.tests.test_app_settings -v 2 --debug-mode
     all: coverage report -m
     all: coverage xml
+
+[testenv:docs]
+description = invoke sphinx-build to build the HTML docs
+basepython = python3.9
+deps = -r{toxinidir}/docs/requirements.txt
+install_command =
+commands =
+    sphinx-build -T -E -b html -d "{toxworkdir}/docs_doctree" -D language=en docs "{toxworkdir}/docs_out" {posargs}