Link Checker Report on 2021-11-07

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Errors in documentation/dev/contributing.html
✗ http://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow (error sending request for url (http://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow): error trying to connect: dns error: failed to lookup address information: Name or service not known)
✗ http://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow/ (error sending request for url (http://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow/): error trying to connect: dns error: failed to lookup address information: Name or service not known)

Errors in repository/doc/contributing.md
✗ http://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow (error sending request for url (http://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow): error trying to connect: dns error: failed to lookup address information: Name or service not known)
✗ http://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow/ (error sending request for url (http://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow/): error trying to connect: dns error: failed to lookup address information: Name or service not known)

Full Github Actions output

[weiji14]

Website to http://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow seems to be down, perhaps we could link directly to the repository at https://github.com/asmeurer/git-workflow? Or we could find a newer example somewhere else.

[maxrjones]

Website to http://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow seems to be down, perhaps we could link directly to the repository at https://github.com/asmeurer/git-workflow? Or we could find a newer example somewhere else.

Most of the info from their post is also at https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/2021-eswn-pygmt-workshop/blob/main/setup.md. I could expand that a bit to include submitting pull requests (e.g., https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/2021-eswn-pygmt-workshop/blob/main/activities/github-doc-workflow.md + a version for local changes). We could either host it in the PyGMT repository, as a hackmd document in 'book view mode', or an update to the workshop repository.

If you don't think having a PyGMT specific post similar to theirs is worthwhile, I think we could wait a bit to see if the site comes back and possibly even open an issue to let them know it's down.

[weiji14]

I like the idea of using the 2021 ESWN workshop material, but it could also be a lot of work. Or we can use another guide such as at:

• https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/#opening-a-pull-request
• https://makeapullrequest.com/

The last one is quite interesting, there is a badge which links to a set of walkthrough videos. So lots of options to choose from.

[maxrjones]

FYI git-workflow link seems to work again.

[weiji14]

Closing this since the link to https://www.asmeurer.com/git-workflow is fixed. Updating the git tutorial might be a bit of work, so let's consider it another time.