chore(ci): Replaced PR link validation workflow with new workflow from docs-tooling/link-checker/.github-workflows-link-check.yml
chore: organize .gitignore
test: add content to trigger link-checker workflow
This small change tests the pr-link-check.yml workflow
feat: update link-checker workflow and documentation
- Add production config with corrected User-Agent placement
- Remove old link validation actions (replaced by link-checker)
fix: update link-checker workflow configuration
- Update Node.js version to 20 for dependency compatibility
feat: use pre-built link-checker binary from docs-tooling releases
- Replace building from source with downloading from releases
- Use GitHub API to get latest release and binary
- Maintain same artifact structure for downstream job
fix: improve change detection in pr-link-check workflow
- Use GitHub API for reliable PR file detection
- Add debug output to show all changed files
- Fix conditional logic for when jobs should run
docs: update TESTING.md with binary distribution and automated GitHub Actions integration
- Document pre-built binary download as recommended installation method
- Explain automated PR link checking workflow for docs-v2
- Replace manual GitHub Actions example with automated integration details
- Remove exaggerated language and specify actual exclusion types
fix(ci): download link-checker binary from docs-v2 releases
- Change binary source from private docs-tooling to public docs-v2 releases
- Fixes GitHub Actions permission issues accessing private repos
- Binary is now stored as a release asset on docs-v2 itself
test: add test file with valid links to verify workflow passes
test: remove temporary test file for link checker workflow
The test file was only needed to verify the workflow functionality
and should not be part of the documentation.
docs: update TESTING.md to document docs-v2 binary distribution
- Change primary installation method to download from docs-v2 releases
- Explain that binary distribution enables reliable GitHub Actions access
- Update automated workflow description to reflect docs-v2 release usage
- Maintain build-from-source as alternative option
refactor(ci): combine workflow into single job for cleaner PR display
- Merge detect-changes, build-site, and download-link-checker into single job
- All setup steps now run conditionally within one job
- Cleaner PR display shows only 'Check links in affected files'
- Maintains all functionality with improved UX
fix(ci): exclude problematic URLs from link checking
- Add reddit.com exclusions (blocks bots)
- Add support.influxdata.com exclusion (SSL certificate issues in CI)
- Prevents false positive failures in automated link checking
- Fix Test Setup Validation to handle edge cases without false failures
- Remove unnecessary Cypress artifacts upload (screenshots/videos)
- Reduce verbose logging while maintaining debugging capability
- Add clear success/failure reporting with actionable messages
- Improve handling of empty test subjects and fallback scenarios
The test now only fails for genuine setup issues, not configuration
edge cases like empty subject lists or cache optimization scenarios.
- Fix GitHub Actions exit logic to only fail when broken links exist
- Improve Cypress test error handling with robust fallback mechanism
- Enhance Test Setup Validation to handle cache scenarios correctly
The workflow was incorrectly failing when generating success comments
with cache statistics, treating any comment generation as broken links.
Now properly distinguishes between success messages and actual failures.
during execution
- Resource management: Reducing memory pressure in
CI that causes process termination
- Signal handling: Properly cleaning up processes
on unexpected termination
- Timeout adjustments: Giving more time for
operations in CI environments
3. The Test Setup Validation Failure: This was
happening because the before() hook was failing when
it couldn't communicate with a dead Hugo process.
Your health monitoring will catch this earlier and
provide better error messages.
- Add GitHub Actions for automated link validation on PRs
- Implement incremental validation with caching (30-day TTL, configurable)
- Add matrix generator for parallel validation strategy
- Create comprehensive TESTING.md documentation
- Add cache manager with configurable TTL via env var or CLI
- Implement smart link extraction and validation
- Add PR comment generator for broken link reports
- Update Cypress tests to use incremental validation
- Consolidate testing docs from CONTRIBUTING.md to TESTING.md
Key improvements:
- Cache-aware validation only checks changed content
- Parallel execution for large changesets
- Detailed PR comments with broken link reports
- Support for LINK_CACHE_TTL_DAYS env var
- Local testing with yarn test:links
- Reduced false positives through intelligent caching
Jason Stirnaman
Jason Stirnaman