[BUG] Broken links in plugin README files

[AWSHurneyt]

What is the bug?

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 dashboards README for example links to https://forum.opensearch.org/c/Use-this-category-for-all-questions-around-machine-learning-plugins, which displays a Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private error message.

This issue replaces the broken links in many of the READMEs, but frontend plugins in particular are not addressed by it. https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/issues/921

As there are several plugins with READMEs that contain these broken links, it may be worthwhile to campaign for having each plugin replace that link with an updated one.

How can one reproduce the bug?

Visit the README file for the plugins, and click the link to the opendistro forum.

What is the expected behavior?

These links should take the user to the appropriate forum on the OpenSearch website.

What is your host/environment?

MacOS 12.5.1

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[saratvemulapalli]

Thanks @AWSHurneyt, @cwillum for opening this up. I understand the Readme's are going out of date and links are broken. Its nice to fix them, but I am afraid they will be lost again.

We've build link checker[1] for this repository which mandates every PR to update broken links. We've already updated the documentation[2]. Could you use meta[3] to open up issues in all plugins to implement broken links checker and fix the readme's along with it? We can make this as a campaign and label it for a release.

[1] https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-plugins/blob/main/.github/workflows/links.yml [2] https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-plugins/blob/main/STANDARDS.md#broken-links-checker [3] https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-plugins/blob/main/.meta

[saratvemulapalli]

Coming back, @AWSHurneyt are you open to taking care of this and run a campaign ?

[AWSHurneyt]

@saratvemulapalli I'm currently committed to a feature we're looking to launch for 2.4, but I should have some bandwidth after that release. Is there an SOP for running a campaign?

[dblock]

@saratvemulapalli I'm currently committed to a feature we're looking to launch for 2.4, but I should have some bandwidth after that release. Is there an SOP for running a campaign?

No, but we should! I opened https://github.com/opensearch-project/project-meta/issues/61 with some high level steps that I know of, want to create a campaign for above and document the steps?