Docs for some integration plugin components aren't getting updated

[karenzone]

Specifics

• Logstash Reference (LSR)
• AWS integration 7.0.0
  • codec-cloudfront
  • codec-cloudtrail

Details

When we create a new integration plugin and "adopt" formerly stand-alone plugins, the integration and child plugins are all expected to update in tandem to the next major version (AWS 7.0.0). For the AWS integration, the version number/release date on the two codec plugins--cloudfront and cloudtrail--are not getting updated. Here's an example of an early PR where this problem presented itself: elastic/logstash-docs#1400.

Short-term remediation

As a short-term work-aound, I manually bumped the release date/version in the output files in logstash-docs.

When we run the doc generation job for affected branches, the resulting PR contains files with the old version and release date. Obviously, we don't want to introduce regressions, so I have to make manual fixes on the PR. Here's the fix we need to address this secondary problem: #79.

Other notes

• This issue applies only to Logstash Reference (LSR) plugin generation. The Versioned Plugin Reference (VPR) plugin generation uses different tooling and is not impacted.
• This issue could possibly be related to settings (lockfiles, skiplists, etc.) rather than a problem with docs tooling. If that's the case, we need to fix that elsewhere and/or update "Adding integration docs" internal documentation as another checklist item.
• As with most docs-tooling issues, testing might be tricky because we'll need to bump version and publish to fully test.