do linkchecks for changelog lint

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

#1721 showed that we don't check those and mistakes happen, #1720 related

[nicoddemus]

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to do this? I took a look at rst-lint we use and it does not have that option.

[The-Compiler]

LinkChecker maybe? Hopefully it also runs locally over the generated HTML files.

If we do this with Travis we probably shouldn't do it on every push though.

[nicoddemus]

Hmm sounds good. Why do you say we shouldn't do it on every push? So people's PRs are not blocked if some unrelated link is broken?

Python 3 is not yet supported.

Sad panda is sad.

[The-Compiler]

No, because it's not very nice to do dozens (hundreds?) of HTTP request with every push 😉 I guess we could use Travis' cron feature?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

should we make it part of the pre-release process?

[nicoddemus]

No, because it's not very nice to do dozens (hundreds?) of HTTP request with every push 😉

Heh, right. 😝

should we make it part of the pre-release process?

Good idea. A simple environment on tox that should be part of the release process sounds good, executed locally.

[adamtheturtle]

In case it saves you a few minutes, https://github.com/jenca-cloud/jenca-authentication/blob/master/.travis.yml#L16 is a .travis.yml which only installs and runs linkchecker on Python 3 builds.

[nicoddemus]

Thanks @adamtheturtle!

[The-Compiler]

Seems like Sphinx also has a linkcheck builder built-in.

[Zac-HD]

An easy contribution would be to run the Sphinx linkcheck builder from release.py, after the fix_formatting() step.