Bug 255242 - Broken links on "Release Documentation" pages
Summary: Broken links on "Release Documentation" pages
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Website (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: FreeBSD Release Engineering
URL:
Keywords:
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2021-04-20 01:00 UTC by gladiola
Modified: 2022-03-01 20:08 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Picture of some of the text that anchors broken links. (26.04 KB, image/png)
2021-04-20 01:00 UTC, gladiola 		no flags Details
Picture of the start of the trail of broken links. (4.43 KB, image/png)
2021-04-20 01:02 UTC, gladiola 		no flags Details
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Description gladiola 2021-04-20 01:00:32 UTC 
Created attachment 224271 [details]
Picture of some of the text that anchors broken links.

When I went to FreeBSD.org to check some hardware compatibility lists, I found several hyperlinks on the "Release Documentation" page broken. To get to the information, I had to pick a release number in the "Release Information" pages and then find a hyperlink that worked. To get to the page with the broken links, I started with the "Release Information" page and followed the hyperlink in the second paragraph.

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That link leads to the page with the broken links.

On https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/ links to pages like Hardware Notes going to sites like https://www.freebsd.org/releases/CURRENT/hardware/ were not working.
Several of these appeared to lead only to error messages.

FreeBSDOrgBrokenLinks.PNG
Comment 1 gladiola 2021-04-20 01:02:07 UTC 
Created attachment 224272 [details]
Picture of the start of the trail of broken links.
Comment 2 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-20 03:31:12 UTC 
Bug 252980
Comment 3 Minsoo Choo 2022-02-27 20:51:12 UTC 
This is because release documentation is not provided for -CURRENT and -STABLE.
Maybe related to this(https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252980)
I uploaded patch on Phabricator(https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33073)
Comment 4 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-03-01 19:59:02 UTC 
A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=ae80d7bad0d02eb9def6fa63655d36e5451750cb

commit ae80d7bad0d02eb9def6fa63655d36e5451750cb
Author:     Minsoo Choo <fel1x.mintchoco.development@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: 2022-03-01 19:37:26 +0000
Commit:     Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-03-01 19:37:26 +0000

    relnotes: Remove references to documentation for !-RELEASE

    The release notes erroneously reference documentation that is not
    provided with either -CURRENT or -STABLE branches.

    If they ever existed, it's been a long time since they were removed, as
    a check on the ftp-archive reveals no existence of it as far back as
    6-STABLE in and around 2005.

    PR:             252980 255242
    Reviewed by:    gjb (releng)
    Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33073

 website/content/en/relnotes.adoc | 29 +----------------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 28 deletions(-)