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
- 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