You will want to add a -Dlocalhost to the wget to ensure you're not
checking domains linked from our docs and turn travis into google. ;)


On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 3:19 PM Michael Miklavcic <
michael.miklav...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well golly, I love this. I'll give that a whirl!
>
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 1:08 PM Casey Stella <ceste...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I definitely agree with option 3; that's a no-brainer IMO.  I thought for
> > sure this was already happening, honestly.
> >
> > As for 2, we could even script the broken link check by:
> >
> >    - Serving up the site locally via python with `python -m http.server`
> >    from the site-book output directory
> >    - Looking at the output of wget --spider -e robots=off -w 1 -r -p
> >    http://localhost:8000 for 404s
> >
> >
> > As for 1, I'm fine with it if that's where we want to go.  I'm a +0
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM Michael Miklavcic <
> > michael.miklav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > We recently had our site-book doc generation break due to our not
> > including
> > > it in the Travis build. The fix for a broken build seems simple enough
> -
> > > add it to our build process and assuming it doesn't cause build timeout
> > > issues, we should be good to go.
> > >
> > > Beyond that, there are additional issues with the existing process. We
> > have
> > > a step in our PR review for validating that the docs are rendering
> > > properly. I know I've gone back and corrected issues with broken images
> > or
> > > incorrectly rendering pages at least a few times now. On one hand, we
> > might
> > > say this is simply a matter of being better about validating
> > documentation
> > > during the review process. That may be true, but rather than fight
> > upstream
> > > like a salmon, I would prefer to simplify things, automate what we can,
> > and
> > > use technology to work with us. Based on this conversation on
> > METRON-1950 -
> > > (
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e2acf91efc5f51ba0e26d76b00ca02415d3c6ee0adee74a037ab2beb@%3Cdev.metron.apache.org%3E
> > > ),
> > > I'd like to open up a general convo about improvements to our
> > documentation
> > > generation.
> > >
> > > *Current Issues:*
> > >
> > >    1. Duplicated effort - have to check pages render in Github and the
> > >    Doxia-generated site-book
> > >    2. Inconsistent model - what works for Github markdown may not work
> > for
> > >    Doxia, and vice versa
> > >    3. Github is part of our workflow and easy to check, Doxia requires
> an
> > >    extra separate step - suffers unintentional bugs due to #2.
> > >    4. Images have to be manually added to the site rendering code for
> > >    copying to the "images" folder, and explicit src ref replacements
> have
> > > to
> > >    be included for all affected pages/links as well.
> > >    5. Page links and images are not validated - this currently requires
> > >    manual review and intervention during PR review and whenever we
> > create a
> > >    new Metron release.
> > >    6. Failed site-book build is not validated. Broken build does not
> fail
> > >    Travis
> > >
> > > *Options and Solutions:*
> > >
> > >    1. Otto has already brought up using Ascii doc as one option for
> > solving
> > >    a number of these issues.
> > >    2. For issue #5, we can write a scraper that validates links or use
> > >    tooling like Cypress for this.
> > >    3. For issue #6, we can add site-book building to our Travis runs.
> > It's
> > >    pretty quick to generate and will catch the more egregious rendering
> > > bugs.
> > >    I plan to look at this presently.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
>

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