cicd: update actions + docs workflow from template

.github/workflows/checks.yaml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         db_url: ["http://localhost:8000", "postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/gene_normalizer_test"]
-        python-version: ['3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
     services:
       postgres:
         image: postgres:14
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ jobs:
       GENE_NORM_DB_URL: ${{ matrix.db_url }}
       GENE_TEST: true
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
 
@@ -46,16 +46,17 @@ jobs:
           ./tests/unit/dynamodb_build.bash
 
       - name: Run tests
-        run: python3 -m pytest tests/
+        run: python3 -m pytest
+
   lint:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.11
+          python-version: "3.11"
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: python3 -m pip install ".[dev]"
@@ -65,10 +66,21 @@ jobs:
 
   docs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      SPHINX_GITHUB_CHANGELOG_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - uses: ammaraskar/sphinx-action@master
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          pre-build-command: 'python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip &&  python3 -m pip install .[docs]'
-          docs-folder: "docs/"
+          python-version: 3.11
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python3 -m pip install '.[docs]'
+
+      - name: Attempt docs build
+        working-directory: ./docs
+        run: make html