build: Remove broken website link check job

.circleci/config.yml

@@ -175,97 +175,6 @@ jobs:
           name: test docker build for 'full' image
           command: docker build -t test-docker-full .
 
-  # Based on a similar job in terraform-website repo.
-  website-link-check:
-    docker:
-      - image: *MIDDLEMAN_IMAGE
-    steps:
-      - checkout:
-          path: terraform
-
-      - run:
-          name: Determine changed website files, if any
-          working_directory: terraform
-          command: |
-            # Figure out what the current branch forked from. Compare against
-            # main and the set of "vX.Y" branches, and choose whichever branch
-            # we're the *fewest* commits ahead of.
-            # The point here isn't to perfectly predict where this will be
-            # merged; all we really care about is determining which commits are
-            # *unique to this PR,* so we don't accidentally complain about
-            # problems you had nothing to do with.
-            PARENT_BRANCH=$(
-              for br in $(git branch -rl --format='%(refname:short)' | grep -E '^origin/(main|v\d+\.\d+)$'); do
-                new_commits=$(git rev-list --first-parent ^${br} HEAD | wc -l);
-                echo "${br} ${new_commits}";
-              done \
-              | sort -n -k2 \
-              | head -n1 \
-              | awk '{print $1}';
-            )
-            echo "Checking current branch against: ${PARENT_BRANCH}"
-            MERGE_BASE=$(git merge-base HEAD ${PARENT_BRANCH})
-            git diff --name-only -z --diff-filter=AMRCT ${MERGE_BASE}..HEAD -- ./website/ > /tmp/changed-website-files.txt
-              # --name-only: Return a list of affected files but don't show the changes.
-              # -z: Make that a null-separated list (instead of newline-separated), and
-              #     DON'T mangle non-ASCII characters.
-              # --diff-filter=AMRCT: Only list files that were added, modified, renamed,
-              #     copied, or had their type changed (file, symlink, etc.). In
-              #     particular, we don't want to check deleted files.
-              # ${MERGE_BASE}..HEAD: Only consider files that have
-              #     changed since this branch diverged from its parent branch.
-              # -- ./website/: Only consider files in the website directory.
-            echo "Changed website files:"
-            cat /tmp/changed-website-files.txt | tr '\0' '\n'
-              # Need to use "tr" for display because it's a null-separated list.
-
-      - run:
-          name: Exit early if there's nothing to check
-          command: |
-            if [ ! -s /tmp/changed-website-files.txt ]; then
-              circleci-agent step halt
-            fi
-
-      - run:
-          name: Check out terraform-website repo
-          command: git clone git@github.com:hashicorp/terraform-website.git
-
-      - run:
-          name: Use local checkout for terraform submodule, instead of cloning again
-          working_directory: terraform-website
-          command: |
-            # Set submodule's URL to our existing checkout.
-            # (Using `pwd` because git's behavior with strictly relative paths is unreliable.)
-            git config --file=.gitmodules submodule.ext/terraform.url $(pwd)/../terraform/.git
-            # Make it so `make sync` will grab our current branch instead of stable-website.
-            git config --file=.gitmodules submodule.ext/terraform.branch HEAD
-
-      - run:
-          name: Init/update terraform-website submodules
-          working_directory: terraform-website
-          command: make sync
-
-      - run:
-          name: Set up terraform-website dependencies
-          working_directory: terraform-website/content
-          # If this does anything interesting, then the container needs an update.
-          command: bundle check || bundle install --path vendor/bundle --retry=3
-
-      - run:
-          name: Run middleman in background
-          working_directory: terraform-website/content
-          background: true
-          command: bundle exec middleman server
-
-      - run:
-          name: Wait for server to start
-          command: until curl -sS http://localhost:4567/ > /dev/null; do sleep 1; done
-
-      - run:
-          name: Check links in changed pages
-          working_directory: terraform-website/content
-          command: cat /tmp/changed-website-files.txt | bundle exec ./scripts/check-pr-links.rb
-
 workflows:
   version: 2
   test:
@@ -289,7 +198,3 @@ workflows:
       - build-amd64
       - build-arm
       - build-arm64
-
-  website-test:
-    jobs:
-      - website-link-check