Re: [PATCH next 00/45] doc: fix some issues reported by linkcheck

On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 06:49:37PM +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:

> Saw a dead link and made the mistake of running `make linkcheckdocs`.
> Now I'm knee-deep in it and cannot ignore all the dead and redirected
> links. A day later, I've had enough so this is what I managed to fix in
> that time. There are many URLs still redirecting (could be fine, but
> needs to be individually checked as some big companies have a tendencies
> to redirect to generic pages instead of issuing 404s...) or returning
> 4xx. The issue is that those 4xx also need to be individually checked
> because since the AIpocalypse has started many websites now have web
> crawler protection in place and linkcheck will trigger those and be
> denied access (or be heavily rate limited).
> 
> Please be mindful and only run this script once, save its output and
> work on fixing individual errors without rerunning the script, otherwise
> we would only participate in hammering websites even more (linkcheck
> runs multiple workers in parallel and retries when rate-limited).
> 
> Note that linkcheck doesn't check for links in code-blocks so our
> instructions may point at dead links also.
> 
> At an attempt to avoid tens of people running linkcheck at the same
> time, here's the output sorted and filtered on !ok status:

Thanks for doing this, it is helpful and appreciated.

-- 
Tom

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