[FLINK-13847] Update release scripts to also update docs/_config.yml

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Not a Priority
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Documentation, Release System
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-major auto-deprioritized-minor
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
• Created: 26/Aug/19 02:44
• Updated: 23/Nov/21 10:43

Description

During the 1.9.0 release process, we missed quite a few configuration updates in docs/_config.yml related to Flink versions. This should be able to be done automatically in via the release scripts.

A list of settings in that file that needs to be touched on every major release include:

• version
• version_title
• github_branch
• baseurl
• stable_baseurl
• javadocs_baseurl
• pythondocs_baseurl
• is_stable
• Add new link to previous_docs

This can probably be done via the tools/releasing/create_release_branch.sh script, which is used for every major release.

We should also update the release guide in the project wiki to cover checking that file as an item in checklists.