[DOC] Upgrade for each dependency is hard to maintain

[marcalff]

In light of #2676 and #2677, it turns out upgrading each dependency is not trivial, because versions numbers for each dependencies are spread in multiple files in the source code, some of them long forgotten and easy to overlook.

In this case, opentelemetry-proto was updated to 1.3.1 in a few places, but left as 1.1.0 in others.

Provide maintainers documentation that lists exhaustively, for each dependency:

• where the dependency comes from
• what are the minimal version requirements
• which files needs to be updated
• which special build or tests need to be considered
• anything else relevant for maintainers

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[Annosha]

Hi, @marcalff I would like to work on this issue as a beginner? Is it still open for changes?

[marcalff]

Hi, @marcalff I would like to work on this issue as a beginner? Is it still open for changes?

Sorry I missed this message.

Yes, any contributions are welcome.

The goal is up expand the docs/maintaining-dependencies.md file.

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[zurex]

Hi @marcalff, could i pick this since @Annosha no activity for more than a month. I plan to raise separate pull requests for each dependency and check in new md in doc folder. Does it work for you?

[zurex]

There is already a maintain document, and the missing content will be added based on this document.

[zurex]

Currently, the steps to update a dependency in maintaining-dependencies.md have a lot of similar and repeated parts. It would be better to separate them into a common section to follow.
I will add how to update git submodule and how to update bazel dependency as a new section. In the same time i will remove this part from existing dependencies upgrade doc and add a link to the new section for follow.

[zurex]

Check in new dependencies:

• nlohmann-json
• abseil