[FLINK-33567] Flink documentation should only display connector downloads links when a connector is available

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.17.0, 1.18.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.16.3, 1.19.0, 1.18.1, 1.17.3
• Component/s: Documentation
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Martijn Visser
• Reporter: Martijn Visser
• Created: 16/Nov/23 08:27
• Updated: 23/Nov/23 08:37
• Resolved: 16/Nov/23 13:21

Description

We currently have the situation that:

1. When visiting the master documentation, a message is correctly displayed that there are only connectors available for stable (= released) versions of Flink
2. When visiting the docs for release-1.18 or release-1.17, sometimes download links to non-existing links are displayed, because there's no compatible version of the connector (yet) available.

In order to solve this, we should:
1. Add a Flink Compatibility collection to the connector repo doc
2. Use the compatibility collection in the documentation to display the correct links if a connector version for that Flink version is available, and else display the message that there's no connector release available for that Flink version

Issue Links

• fixes: FLINK-33492 Fix unavailable links in connector download page
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #23730
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #23731
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #23732