docs: make linkcheck more forgiving
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Merged updates to make the CI linkcheck more forgiving. Added ignore rules for unstable domains, problematic anchors, and the Ubuntu base domain. Reviewer feedback refined patterns to avoid overly broad root ignores, reducing false positives.
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We get a lot of linkcheck errors in CI. I don't want to disable it as it's very useful, so I want to see if we can make it more forgiving instead.
I've also proposed what I think is a better (more resilient) solution upstream, since that solution will handle it when sites give 500-series errors for a long time.: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/13898
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged updates to make the CI linkcheck more forgiving. Added ignore rules for unstable domains, problematic anchors, and the Ubuntu base domain. Reviewer feedback refined patterns to avoid overly broad root ignores, reducing false positives. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged to make Sphinx linkcheck CI more forgiving. Added specific URL and anchor ignore patterns, excluding ubuntu.com while removing broad root ignores per feedback, reducing false positives without disabling the check. |
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| #2715 docs: linkchecker stopgap fix | charmcraft | merged | Merged a stopgap linkchecker configuration to ignore intermittent errors from snapcraft.io and juju.is until service stability returns. Approved by one reviewer, passed CI checks, and merged with a single four-line update. |