Remove mike dependency from documentation configuration

[Copilot]

The deployment strategy changed from mike deploy to peaceiris/actions-gh-pages, making the mike version provider configuration obsolete.

Changes:

• Removed version.provider: mike from mkdocs.yml extra configuration
• Removed mike>=2.0.0 from pyproject.toml docs dependencies

The documentation build now works without mike, aligning with the GitHub Actions-based deployment approach.

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[Borda]

@copilot, so with this drop, how is the version set? Explain it and justify the change by referring to relevant sources or examples.

[Copilot]

@copilot, so with this drop, how is the version set? Explain it and justify the change by referring to relevant sources or examples.

With mike removed, versioning is now handled through directory-based deployment using GitHub Actions:

How it works:

• The peaceiris/actions-gh-pages action deploys to specific subdirectories in the gh-pages branch
• Development docs deploy to /develop directory (from develop branch pushes)
• Release docs deploy to /[tag_name] directory (from release events, e.g., /0.27.0)
• The destination_dir parameter in the workflow controls where each build is placed

Key differences from mike:

• No version selector UI - mike provided a version dropdown widget in the docs, which is now removed
• No version aliases - mike managed aliases like "latest" → "0.27.0"; now users navigate directly to version-specific URLs
• Simpler deployment - Standard mkdocs build outputs to site/, which is pushed to the appropriate directory
• Direct URL access - Users visit https://supervision.roboflow.com/develop/ or https://supervision.roboflow.com/0.27.0/ directly

References:

• peaceiris/actions-gh-pages destination_dir - Documents subdirectory deployment
• Current gh-pages structure shows ~50 version directories (0.10.0 through 0.27.0) plus develop
• This approach is used by many projects deploying multiple doc versions without a version manager (e.g., static sites with manual version links)

The tradeoff is simplicity vs. convenience: no dependency on mike's version management, but also no automatic version switching UI.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR removes the mike dependency from the documentation configuration, as the deployment strategy has transitioned from using mike deploy to GitHub Actions with peaceiris/actions-gh-pages.

Key Changes:

• Removed mike version provider configuration from mkdocs.yml
• Removed mike>=2.0.0 from documentation dependencies in pyproject.toml

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
mkdocs.yml	Removed the version.provider: mike configuration from the extra section
pyproject.toml	Removed mike>=2.0.0 from the docs dependency group

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[Borda]

Based on the "Key differences from mike" we need to keep mike