docs/changelog: Deduplicate old technical changelog page, redirect releases to their records of truth - #1888
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…record of truth Every Sourcegraph release has exactly one public record of its notes: - 5.7.0 and newer: sourcegraph.com/changelog/releases/<version> - 5.4.5099 through 5.6.2535: this docs page (published nowhere else) - 5.4.2198 and older: CHANGELOG.md in sourcegraph-public-snapshot Trim docs/technical-changelog.mdx (12,646 lines, frozen since January) to the 12 releases that only exist here, and add a client component that forwards version fragments (#v6121271, #v401, GitHub-style #56185) to the matching record. Point the /releases table rows for 4.0 through 5.3 at CHANGELOG.md, matching the 3.x rows. Redirect /CHANGELOG, which the GitHub release notes for 5.4 through 5.6 link to, onto the forwarding page. Co-authored-by: Amp <amp@ampcode.com> Amp-Thread-ID: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a07e67-73b3-779f-8880-7ba770fe7ade
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…#1899) ## What Rewrites every link to this site that was written as an absolute URL (`https://sourcegraph.com/docs/…`, `http://sourcegraph.com/docs/…`, `https://docs.sourcegraph.com/…`) as a relative link (`/admin/config/site-config`), in 15 files. - 32 pointed at the current route: prefix dropped. - 31 pointed at a moved page and only worked through `src/data/redirects.ts`: now link straight to the destination. - 4 needed a hand fix: the `commands#commands-id-mode` and `features#shard-merging` anchors no longer exist, `github#github-com-rate-limits` became `#rate-limits`, and the deleted gRPC guide now links to its archived 5.3 page. ## Why Absolute links leave the Vercel preview and the local dev server, and hide moved pages behind redirects. #1858 makes `dev/check-links.mjs` fail PRs that add them; this PR clears the backlog so that check starts from zero. ## Verification `node dev/check-links.mjs --check-anchors --root <this branch>` with the checker from #1858: 0 absolute self-links left, and no new findings against `main` (317 → 250 pre-existing findings; the 67 removed are all self-links). ## Notes for reviewers - Bare URLs in prose and code blocks (e.g. the `See https://docs.sourcegraph.com/admin/observability/tracing` cells in `docs/cli/references/*`) are not links and are untouched; #1851 covers those. - `docs/admin/repo/perforce.mdx`, `docs/self-hosted/observability/alerts.mdx` and `dashboards.mdx` are synced from sourcegraph/sourcegraph (#1883); the same links need the same fix upstream or the next sync reverts them. - `docs/technical-changelog.mdx` holds 31 of the links and is retired by #1888; if that lands first, take the deletion. Co-authored-by: Amp <amp@ampcode.com>
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Linear FE-499: Fix doc site issues
Summary
docs/technical-changelog.mdx(12,646 lines, 783 KB) has not been updated since v6.12.1271 in January; the changelog moved to sourcegraph.com. This PR stops the docs site from being a stale mirror while keeping every release's notes reachable.Record of truth per version range
https://sourcegraph.com/changelog/releases/<version>CHANGELOG.mdstops at 5.4.2198,sourcegraph.com/changelog/releases/5.6.*is 404, and the GitHub Releases for these tags are stubs that link back tosourcegraph.com/docs/CHANGELOG#<version>CHANGELOG.mdin sourcegraph-public-snapshot,#<version-slug>anchorsCHANGELOG.md(unchanged;/releasesalready linked there)Changes
docs/technical-changelog.mdxto the 12 releases that exist nowhere else, with a notice pointing at the other two records.TechnicalChangelogRedirect, a client component on that page that forwards version fragments to the right record:#v6121271→ sourcegraph.com,#v5312303→ GitHubCHANGELOG.md#5312303, and GitHub-style#56185→ the#v56185heading on the page. Fragments never reach the server, so this cannot be a middleware redirect./releasesdeprecated table rows for 4.0 – 5.3 atCHANGELOG.md, matching the existing 3.x rows. The 5.4 – 5.6 rows keep their docs anchors./CHANGELOG→/technical-changelog. The GitHub release notes for v5.4.0 through v5.6.185 link tosourcegraph.com/docs/CHANGELOG#<version>, which currently soft-404s.Open question
If losing the 5.4.5099 – 5.6.2535 notes is acceptable (all pre-6.0, out of support), the page can be deleted outright and
/technical-changelog*redirected tosourcegraph.com/changelogin middleware instead. This PR keeps them because deleting removes the only public copy.Verification
npx tsc --noEmit,node dev/check-links.mjs(no dead links),git diff --check, Prettier on touched files#v6121271→https://sourcegraph.com/changelog/releases/6.12.1271;#v570→.../releases/5.7.0;#v5312303and#v401→CHANGELOG.md#5312303/#401;#56185→ rewritten to#v56185and scrolled to the heading;#v547765stays and scrolls; unknown#v543500and no fragment stay on the pagecurlagainst middleware:/CHANGELOG→ 307/docs/technical-changelog;/technical-changelog.rssstill →sourcegraph.com/changelog/technical-changelog.rss/releasesrenders 4.0 – 5.3 "Notes" links toCHANGELOG.md#…and 5.4 – 5.6 to/technical-changelog#v…Amp threads