Description
Right now we have code in the docs build that checks links from the docs to the docs and we have code that checks links from Kibana to the docs. The Kibana to the docs links checking code uses regexes to grab links from bits of Kibana's code. This seems brittle because Kibana might want to move things around or build links with string concatenations or, well, all kinds of stuff. I don't really care Kibana wants to build links.
I wonder if we'd be better off having build_docs.pl look for an executable file in every branch of every repo that it knows about and runs it to get a list of links. This'd rely on two things:
- Docker to resolve the dependencies that we need.
- Kibana to write a script to dump their own links.
I'm quite happy to install some node version in the docker image but I really would like the script to be quick so I don't think it should have to resolve dependencies itself. I'm not sure if that is a think Kibana would want to do, but it feels cleaner than the regexes we have now.