GitHub as a Central Hub for AI Project Documentation

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GitHub is an excellent platform for hosting your AI project documentation as it provides version control and collaborative features that are valuable for software development, including documentation. With Pulumi, you can automate the creation of GitHub repositories, set up project boards, manage permissions, and more to establish a central hub for your AI project documentation.

To get started, you'll need to install the Pulumi CLI, set up a Pulumi account, and authenticate to GitHub with a personal access token.

Below is a Pulumi program in Python that sets up a new GitHub repository for your AI project documentation. It includes the repository, project board for task tracking, and issues for tracking individual documentation tasks.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_github as github

# Create a new GitHub repository for hosting the AI project documentation
project_repo = github.Repository(
    "ai_project_documentation",
    name="ai-project-documentation",
    description="Repository to host AI project's documentation",
    visibility="public",  # Change to 'private' if you need the repository to be private
    has_issues=True,
    has_projects=True,
    has_wiki=True,  # Enables GitHub wiki for additional documentation
)

# Create a GitHub project board within the repository to manage documentation tasks
project_board = github.Project(
    "ai_project_documentation_board",
    name="Documentation Board",
    body="Project board to track the documentation of the AI project",
    repository=project_repo.name,
)

# Create issues to represent initial documentation tasks in the repository
issue_setup_documentation = github.Issue(
    "setup_project_documentation",
    title="Set up project documentation structure",
    repository=project_repo.name,
    labels=["documentation"],
)

issue_contribution_guidelines = github.Issue(
    "write_contribution_guidelines",
    title="Write contribution guidelines",
    repository=project_repo.name,
    labels=["documentation"],
)

# Export repository URL to access it easily after deployment
pulumi.export("repository_url", project_repo.html_url)
# Export project board URL
pulumi.export("project_board_url", project_board.html_url)

```

In this Pulumi program, we create a GitHub repository named `ai-project-documentation`. The repository is set to public, though you can change the visibility to private if required. We enable issues and projects for the repository, allowing you to use GitHub's built-in project management tools.

We then create a project board called `Documentation Board` where you can manage and track the progress of your documentation tasks. To provide a starting point for your documentation work, two issues are created: one for setting up the documentation structure and another for writing contribution guidelines.

Once you run this program with Pulumi, the URLs for the repository and the project board are exported. You can use these URLs to directly access the GitHub repository and start working on your project's documentation.

Remember to set up the GitHub provider with the necessary credentials in Pulumi, and you’re all set to go!