From bb2dfa1997f93bb652d2716d19253a995fde0b0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 09:54:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove doc-validator workflow (#103504)

The tool is unmaintained. Most useful rules have been ported to Vale.

The remaining rules often exhibit false positives.

Signed-off-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com>
---
 .github/CODEOWNERS                  |  1 -
 .github/workflows/doc-validator.yml | 26 --------------------------
 2 files changed, 27 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 .github/workflows/doc-validator.yml

diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 6cdfd44466b..29b97f72f54 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -777,7 +777,6 @@ embed.go @grafana/grafana-as-code
 /.github/workflows/community-release.yml @grafana/grafana-developer-enablement-squad
 /.github/workflows/detect-breaking-changes-* @grafana/plugins-platform-frontend
 /.github/workflows/documentation-ci.yml @grafana/docs-tooling
-/.github/workflows/doc-validator.yml @grafana/docs-tooling
 /.github/workflows/deploy-pr-preview.yml @grafana/docs-tooling
 /.github/workflows/epic-add-to-platform-ux-parent-project.yml @meanmina
 /.github/workflows/feature-toggles-ci.yml @grafana/docs-tooling
diff --git a/.github/workflows/doc-validator.yml b/.github/workflows/doc-validator.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e6f613da9b..00000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/doc-validator.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-name: "doc-validator"
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      include:
-        description: |
-          Regular expression that matches paths to include in linting.
-
-          For example: docs/sources/(?:alerting|fundamentals)/.+\.md
-        required: true
-jobs:
-  doc-validator:
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
-    container:
-      image: "grafana/doc-validator:v5.2.0"
-    steps:
-      - name: "Checkout code"
-        uses: "actions/checkout@v4"
-      - name: "Run doc-validator tool"
-        # Only run doc-validator on specific directories.
-        run: >
-          doc-validator
-          '--include=${{ inputs.include }}'
-          '--skip-checks=^(?:image.+|canonical-does-not-match-pretty-URL)$'
-          ./docs/sources
-          /docs/grafana/latest