diff --git a/.github/workflows/doc.yaml b/.github/workflows/doc.yaml
index 4d5e246af1db65c7fc5255db10d5fc454717abca..8e84f445f696fa4200f1c23b32430772796e30d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/doc.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/doc.yaml
@@ -19,7 +19,3 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           DOCUMENTER_KEY: ${{ secrets.DOCUMENTER_KEY }}
-      - run: julia --project=docs docs/make.jl
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          DOCUMENTER_KEY: ${{ secrets.DOCUMENTER_KEY }}
diff --git a/docs/make.jl b/docs/make.jl
index bf7ef2fc8d21846dd64ea0fc267996f74c9fd2b7..29c2d4f555939fd7bb19b00a2418c0740725d394 100644
--- a/docs/make.jl
+++ b/docs/make.jl
@@ -17,3 +17,8 @@ makedocs(
         )...
     ]
 )
+
+# optionally deploy docs to github pages
+deploydocs(
+    repo = "github.com/lamBOOO/SustainableSoftwareEngineering.jl.git",
+)