Rules.sonarsource.com not reachable anymore

[karlhorky]

Oh wow, I ended up here while digging into the related RSPEC documentation removal.

The endpoint I originally found broken is the separate sonarsource.github.io/rspec site, but I see from the official statement above that both the rules site and RSPEC repo were affected.

The scale of the broken references is pretty surprising. rules.sonarsource.com is now NXDOMAIN, while GitHub code search reports about 13,760 files referencing it in total. Only 20 of those are in the SonarSource org.

On the RSPEC side I found a similar situation: 923 occurrences across 626 committed files in SonarJS, plus about 420 files outside SonarJS referencing the public RSPEC site.

I posted the detailed RSPEC findings and one possible alternative here:

Rspec github repository is gone/private?

I ended up here after finding the downstream effects of making the RSPEC repository/site private. The SonarSource/SonarJS repo still contains many public links to sonarsource.github.io/rspec, which now redirect users through GitHub authentication instead of showing the rule documentation: I signed up for this Discourse to figure out what happened to these public docs. I count 923 sonarsource.github.io/rspec occurrences across 626 committed files in SonarJS alone. GitHub code search also…

And the eslint-plugin-sonarjs-related breakage here:

Eslint-plugin-sonar Links to rule docs broken on GitHub page

Victor, hey nice to see you again on the SonarSource message boards. I came here because I’m still seeing many broken rule documentation links in the SonarSource/SonarJS repo: I signed up for this Discourse to find out why the public docs are now missing. I checked the change you made after this report. It looks like it removed the broken RSPEC links from two generated tables, but the main ## Rules table still contains 295 of them. And it seems to go quite a bit further t…