Accelerate documentation build by mocking dependencies #1312
Description
Motivation / Current Behaviour
The current build process for the Sphinx documentation is slow as it requires the installation of many large Python libraries such as numpy, pandas, tensorflow etc.. . By mocking these dependencies, the build process can be accelerated as the packages no longer need to be actually installed.
Enhancement description
To speed up the build, the heavy dependencies that are only required for generating the API documentation, but not for the actual build process, should be mocked in the docs/conf.py configuration file
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