I am a bit hesitant about this one. Could this get flakey if other sites
are down? Would it be better if we just made external link checking a part
of the release process?

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Jens Hedegaard Nielsen <
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#6044
Commit Summary

• Check external links with linkchecker

File Changes

• M .travis.yml
  https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/6044/files#diff-0 (2)

Patch Links:

• https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/6044.patch
• https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/6044.diff

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#6044.

Speaking from experience, there are few things more annoying than having tests fail due to someone else's server. Also, it doesn't have to be the endpoint that's down, just a bad route (which happens on Travis more than you'd think).

Lets see how it works. On the first run it has discovered that our favicon was broken because the link was incorrect

This seems stale - please reopen if needed!