Exclude https://www.mail-archive.com/tiff from linkcheck

[dominikl]

Exclude https://www.mail-archive.com/tiff@lists.osgeo.org/msg00421.html from linkcheck, as it often times out.

[pwalczysko]

As of today, the PR is definitely in (https://merge-ci.openmicroscopy.org/jenkins/job/BIOFORMATS-push/612/console), but the exclusion does not happen https://merge-ci.openmicroscopy.org/jenkins/job/BIOFORMATS-linkcheck/604/console

[pwalczysko]

Atm does not work as expected, see above.

[pwalczysko]

I think we could try to exclude https://www.mail-archive.com* (i.e. not slash-dot-star but just star). What do you think @melissalinkert please ?

[melissalinkert]

I think we could try to exclude https://www.mail-archive.com* (i.e. not slash-dot-star but just star). What do you think @melissalinkert please ?

That approach makes sense to me.

[melissalinkert]

If I run mvn test -DskipSphinxTests=false -Dome-model.uri=/bio-formats-build/ome-model/docs/sphinx/target/sphinx/html locally with this change, then the results in target/sphinx/linkcheck/output.json show that the link is correctly ignored:

$ grep mail-archive output.json 
{"filename": "about/whats-new.rst", "lineno": 230, "status": "ignored", "code": 0, "uri": "https://www.mail-archive.com/tiff@lists.osgeo.org/msg00421.html", "info": ""}

It's not clear to me why https://merge-ci.openmicroscopy.org/jenkins/job/BIOFORMATS-linkcheck/610/ and preceding builds continue to fail. If I remember correctly, we had similar issues with #430, so perhaps a similar fix on the CI side is needed?