Hi all,

As Adam recently mentioned [1], the "Check Markdown links" workflow is
known to regularly produce false failures.

It seems that some external sites have somewhat aggressive rate limits
and/or bot protections in place that lead to these false failures.

We cannot control nor work around those externally controlled things.
PRs are getting blocked by these false failures. Retrying the workflow
does not help. And if the mentioned assumptions are correct, retrying
actually makes the (rate limit) situation even worse, leading to
other/more false failures from "Check Markdown links".

I propose to remove "Check Markdown links" from the required checks
[2]. The workflow would still run, but not block PRs. Reviewers can
still inspect and cross-check potential failures from that workflow.

Thoughts?

Robert

[1] https://github.com/apache/polaris/issues/3097
[2] https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/3102

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