x/website: short links should work on tip.golang.org

[rittneje]

What is the URL of the page with the issue?

https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.20#compiler

What did you do?

If you look at the release notes on https://go.dev/doc/go1.20#compiler, the text "rejects anonymous interface cycles" links to https://go.dev/issue/56103, which results in a 302 redirect to https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56103.

However, if you look at the release notes on https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.20#compiler, the link is for https://tip.golang.org/issue/56103, which results in a 404 and thus renders the to, err := human() page.

What did you expect to see?

Either https://tip.golang.org/issue/56103 should redirect to https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56103, or the release notes should just directly link to GitHub in the first place.

What did you see instead?

[v-aryan]

Hey @rittneje , I would like to work on this issue ...

[v-aryan]

I am very new to open source , I tried to search alot for the text "rejects anonymous interface cycles" but couldn't find , @rittneje please help me solve this issue and make me move one step forward in my open source contribution journey
Thank you.

[ianlancetaylor]

The text is at https://go.googlesource.com/website/+/refs/heads/master/_content/doc/go1.20.html#339.

But the fix for this is not to change that file. This fix for this is to change tip.golang.org so that /issue links redirect as they do for go.dev. See references to tip.golang.org and gotip in the Go files in go.googlesource.com/website.

[v-aryan]

@ianlancetaylor Thanks for replying , But I suspect that the file go1.20.html is not present on my localhost but can be seen when inspecting or viewing the source code. In this type of situation , what can i do more ?

[ianlancetaylor]

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. To be clear, I suspect that fixing this issue is going to require checking out the source code from go.googlesource.com/website and changing it so that the /issue (and /cl) shortlinks from tip.golang.org redirect correctly.

[v-aryan]

@ianlancetaylor

I can find the above code for the site https://go.dev/issue/56103 which redirects to #56103.

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First line specifies that its for site https://go.dev/doc/go1.20#compiler
but the changes have to be done in https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.20#compiler

I understood what changes are to be made ..
But I can't find the text "rejects anonymous interface cycles" which is linked with the url value [https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.20#compiler]

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If I would get the text " rejects anonymous interface cycles" which is linked with https://tip.golang.org/issue/56103 then I will make the appropriate changes which will then be redirected to #56103

Hope you understand
Thanks for helping : )

[rittneje]

@aryanvarma7272 I think you have misunderstood what is to be done. The link I mentioned in the original issue is just one example of the problem. The fix is NOT to fix the link itself. Rather, it is add/fix the redirection logic in the tip.golang.org server.

Here is where the redirection logic is set up:
https://github.com/golang/website/blob/a69753836928bab0cc4c3a2e6fc127572c1787bf/internal/redirect/redirect.go#L31-L34

For some reason, it seems that code is not running on tip.golang.org (or it isn't working correctly).