Remove status labels from Connect components in what's new

[micheleRP]

Summary

• Remove the Status column from all component tables on the what's new page (7 tables converted from 4-column to 3-column)
• Remove inline (experimental) and (beta) labels from component entries in bullet text (6 references)

Preview pages

What's New in Redpanda Connect

Test plan

• Verify all component tables render correctly without the Status column
• Verify the what's new page renders correctly

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The documentation file modules/get-started/pages/whats-new.adoc is reformatted to remove status indicators from component update tables and bullet items. The "Component updates" tables have the Status column definition and header removed. Trailing status parentheticals (e.g., (experimental), (beta)) are deleted from bullet items, and the text separators before descriptions are standardized from ] (status): to ]: for consistent punctuation.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~4 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and specifically summarizes the main change: removing status labels from Connect components in the what's new documentation.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Description check	✅ Passed	The pull request description is directly related to the changeset, clearly detailing the removal of Status columns from component tables and inline status labels.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

modules/get-started/pages/whats-new.adoc (1)

689-689: Column format inconsistency with other tables.

This table uses [cols="1m,1,3"] while the other six updated tables use [cols="1m,1a,3a"]. The a suffix indicates AsciiDoc formatting should be applied to column content. For consistency and to ensure xrefs render properly, consider using the same format as the other tables.

🔧 Suggested format for consistency

-[cols="1m,1,3"]
+[cols="1m,1a,3a"]

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

In `@modules/get-started/pages/whats-new.adoc` at line 689, The table at the line
containing [cols="1m,1,3"] is inconsistent with the other updated tables; change
its column spec to [cols="1m,1a,3a"] so the second and third columns use
AsciiDoc formatting (the "a" suffix) and xrefs render consistently—locate the
exact token [cols="1m,1,3"] in whats-new.adoc and replace it with
[cols="1m,1a,3a"].

🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents

Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

Nitpick comments:
In `@modules/get-started/pages/whats-new.adoc`:
- Line 689: The table at the line containing [cols="1m,1,3"] is inconsistent
with the other updated tables; change its column spec to [cols="1m,1a,3a"] so
the second and third columns use AsciiDoc formatting (the "a" suffix) and xrefs
render consistently—locate the exact token [cols="1m,1,3"] in whats-new.adoc and
replace it with [cols="1m,1a,3a"].

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[micheleRP]

Note: Remaining status labels on component pages

This PR only removes status labels from the what's new page. Individual component pages still display :status: experimental or :status: beta in their page attributes, which feeds into the category listing pages via the generate-rp-connect-categories.js extension.

Related upstream PR redpanda-data/connect#4205 promotes ~50 components from Beta/Experimental to Stable in the Connect source code and its docs/ folder. When that PR merges and the next auto-docs run regenerates those pages here, their :status: will update to stable.

However, 45 experimental and 5 beta components are not covered by connect#4205 and will retain their current status after regeneration:

Experimental components not in connect#4205 (45)

• caches: couchbase, mongodb, nats_kv, sql
• inputs: azure_cosmosdb, beanstalkd, cassandra, cockroachdb_changefeed, discord, mongodb, oracledb_cdc, parquet, pulsar, redis_scan, redpanda_migrator, twitter_search
• outputs: azure_cosmosdb, beanstalkd, cyborgdb, discord, mongodb, pulsar, pusher, salesforce_sink, slack_reaction
• processors: aws_dynamodb_partiql, azure_cosmosdb, cached, command, couchbase, ffi, gcp_bigquery_select, javascript, jira, mongodb, nats_request_reply, parquet_decode, parquet_encode, salesforce, sentry_capture, wasm
• rate_limits: redis
• tracers: gcp_cloudtrace, open_telemetry_collector, redpanda

Beta components not in connect#4205 (5)

• buffers/system_window, inputs/subprocess, metrics/logger, outputs/subprocess, processors/retry

If the goal is to remove status display entirely from the site, the generate-rp-connect-categories.js extension and the connector.hbs template in @redpanda-data/docs-extensions-and-macros would also need changes.