[FLINK-30768] flink-web version cleanup

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.16.0, 1.17.0, 1.15.3
• Component/s: Project Website
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-major pull-request-available starter
• Assignee: xiang1 yu
• Reporter: Matthias Pohl
• Created: 23/Jan/23 12:56
• Updated: 30/Oct/23 13:51
• Resolved: 30/Oct/23 13:51

Description

The Flink website sources have multiple dependency versions (e.g. log4j, sl4fj in q/gradle-quickstart.sh in q/gradle-quickstart.sh) that are not referenced in Flink's parent pom file. That means that contributors might forget updating the right locations in flink-web when updating the dependencies. Additionally, q/gradle-quickstart.sh specifies a $defaultFlinkVersion variable but requires to update a hardcoded Flink version further down in the script as well (see q/gradle-quickstart.sh:119).

This Jira issue is about reducing the locations where we have to update versions (through variables) and adding references that these variables have to be updated to the corresponding versions that used in the Flink source code as well.

Issue Links

• Testing discovered: FLINK-33383 flink-quickstart-scala.sh is not supported anymore since 1.17 but is used in flink-web helper scripts
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #683