Re: [PATCH] docs/devel/testing.rst: Update outdated Avocado URLs

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 2/8/21 7:59 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:53 AM John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/10/20 4:07 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> Avocado documentation referred returns 404 error.
>>> Update the broken links.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>    docs/devel/testing.rst | 4 ++--
>>>    1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
>>> index bd64c1bdcdd..23a1697d9f4 100644
>>> --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
>>> +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
>>> @@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ To manually install Avocado and its dependencies, run:
>>>
>>>    Alternatively, follow the instructions on this link:
>>>
>>> -  http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/GetStartedGuide.html#installing-avocado
>>> +  https://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/user/chapters/installing.html
>>>
>>>    Overview
>>>    --------
>>> @@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ Parameter reference
>>>    To understand how Avocado parameters are accessed by tests, and how
>>>    they can be passed to tests, please refer to::
>>>
>>> -  http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/WritingTests.html#accessing-test-parameters
>>> +  https://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/writer/chapters/writing.html#accessing-test-parameters
>>>
>>>    Parameter values can be easily seen in the log files, and will look
>>>    like the following:
>>>
>>
>> Do you know if there's a way we can augment sphinx to check link status
>> once in a while?
> 
> No, but good idea! Why not ask on the list, IIRC danpb mentioned something
> similar in another thread.
> 
>> If there's a callback where we can get sphinx to call a python function
>> for every URL it finds, we can use response = requests.head(url) and
>> check response.status_code to make sure it's 200 OK.
>>

OK, at Phil's nudge: Does anyone know if there's a Sphinx callback for 
URL processing? We could probably write a test that we could enable 
every-so-often.

I am thinking there might be some benefit to a test suite that we only 
run once-in-a-while during release candidate phases, and this could be 
one of them.

>> --js
>>
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