gaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check is no longer maintained

[WillGibson]

@tcort @smainil @BaseMax

Options include:

• Fork it and maintain a tcort action to go with the checker
• Ask @gaurav-nelson if they are happy for us to maintain it or transfer ownership
• Evaluate Linkspector and consider whether we want to continue to support markdown-link-check or provide instructions for moving over.

Based on my initial tests the third one is not an option just yet, but it may be worth considering the benefits of joining forces on a single tool.

Thoughts?

[smainil]

If we want people to continue using markdown-link-check, I think we should provide our own github action.

I don't know if linkspector is better or not / what's the differences

[WillGibson]

Let's fork it.

Makes sense for it to live with the other repositories I think.

@tcort, please could you fork gaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check and add the rest of us as maintainers and I'll take it from there.

[tcort]

Let's fork it.

Makes sense for it to live with the other repositories I think.

@tcort, please could you fork gaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check and add the rest of us as maintainers and I'll take it from there.

Done! https://github.com/tcort/github-action-markdown-link-check

[gaurav-nelson]

I don't have any issues. I'll add the link to this action in gaurav-nelson/github-action-markdown-link-check and archive that repository. Thank you @tcort @WillGibson @smainil

[WillGibson]

@tcort Can I get access to the settings for the new repository to set up branch protection, default to squash merge etc.?

[WillGibson]

I think I will want to detach the fork too, so that pull requests don't default to being made to @gaurav-nelson's repository.

[gjermundgaraba]

FYI: the new github action was tagged with 1.1.0 instead of v1.1.0, so the docs are broken (they say to use tcort/github-action-markdown-link-check@v1, but it would have to be tcort/github-action-markdown-link-check@1 to be equivalent. I suggest re-releasing as v1.1.0 to keep consistent with how most github actions does it.

(I wrote this here, because issues are not enabled on the github action repo)

[BaseMax]

Thanks @gjermundgaraba for checking the text and your recent PR.

[WillGibson]

Good point @gjermundgaraba. I will do a new release.

[WillGibson]

Done. Released as v1.1.0 and v1, Readme updated.