failing docs builds because the scipy intersphinx registry is unreachable

[keewis]

What happened?

scipy seems to have some trouble with their documentation host setup, which means that trying to fetch its intersphinx registry returns a 404.

There's nothing we can do to really fix this, but we can try to the avoid docs build failures by disabling that intersphinx entry (not sure if that results in other errors, though)

What did you expect to happen?

No response

Minimal Complete Verifiable Example

No response

Relevant log output

WARNING: failed to reach any of the inventories with the following issues:
intersphinx inventory 'https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/objects.inv' not fetchable due to <class 'requests.exceptions.HTTPError'>: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/objects.inv

Anything else we need to know?

No response

Environment

See RTD

[keewis]

update: the 404 is gone, but now it is returning a HTML document instead of objects.inv

[mathause]

Did it move?

-https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/objects.inv
+https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/objects.inv

[keewis]

that does seem to work, but I'm not sure what the official path is. We can temporarily use this to avoid failing the builds, though.

[mathause]

Found by chance: pandas-dev/pandas#5878 & scipy/scipy#15545 (comment) - so 'scipy': ('https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/', None), seems to be the new link.

[keewis]

are you sure the pandas issue is the one you meant to link to?

Anyways, that scipy issue does indeed suggest that we're already using the correct link, and the most recent builds pass. So I guess we can close this?

[mathause]

You are right! The docs build again.