[DOC] Broken links to opensearch.org in plugin READMEs

[AWSHurneyt]

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Several of the plugins (e.g., anomaly detection, alerting, ISM, etc.) contain links to the opendistro website in the READMEs for their back and frontend repositories. These links redirect to opensearch.org, but not to a functioning forum page. The link in the Alerting README for example links to https://forum.opensearch.org/c/alerting/, which displays a Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private error message.

Is it possible for the ODFE pages to redirect to more appropriate forum pages on the OpenSearch site, or would the plugins need to update their READMEs with new links?

This is a list of PRs for individual plugin repositories affected by this issue:

• Alerting plugin #545
• Anomaly Detection plugin #659
• Asynchronous search plugin #178
• Cross-cluster replication plugin #548
• Dashboards reports plugin #455
• Index Management plugin #499
• k-NN plugin #540
• ML Commons plugin #418
• Observability plugin #999
• Performance Analyzer plugin #266
• SQL plugin #809

[cwillum]

Waiting for owners/contributors of the various repositories to finish reviewing and merging the PRs. Once all of the PRs listed above have been merged, I'll close this issue.

[cwillum]

Commented in remaining un-merged PRs (checkmark in list above indicates PR has been merged). Asked for final review and merge on my behalf (I don't have permission in those repos).

[AWSHurneyt]

I just wanted to quickly clarify that these broken links are also present in the README files of the frontend plugins (e.g., alerting dashboards) as well.

[cwillum]

@AWSHurneyt That's a good point. I think at this stage, it might be best to follow the advice of @saratvemulapalli and add a new issue in opensearch-plugins: "if [an issue] impacts 2 or more plugins, you can open a PR with a suggestion in STANDARDS.md and we could campaign it."

[AWSHurneyt]

@cwillum Agreed. I've created the above issues in the opensearch-plugins folder.

[Naarcha-AWS]

Closing this issue since every broken link in question has either been fixed through merge or has a PR associated with it.