[Backport 1.x] Staging for version increment automation

[opensearch-trigger-bot]

Backport 3b8bfe7 from #489

[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

Merging #500 (20306f8) into 1.x (856d47e) will decrease coverage by 0.15%.
The diff coverage is n/a.

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- Coverage     78.43%   78.27%   -0.16%     
  Complexity      265      265              
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  Files           176      176              
  Lines          7223     7223              
  Branches        960      960              
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- Hits           5665     5654      -11     
- Misses         1060     1069       +9     
- Partials        498      500       +2     

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
...lin/org/opensearch/alerting/alerts/AlertIndices.kt	67.11% <0.00%> (-6.72%)	⬇️
...ain/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/AlertService.kt	78.53% <0.00%> (-0.49%)	⬇️

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[prudhvigodithi]

Hey @lezzago @praveensameneni can you please review and merge this PR?
Thank you

[prudhvigodithi]

Hey @lezzago can you please merge this as well?
Thank you

[AWSHurneyt]

The dependencies called out by the whitesource check failure will be addressed in a separate PR.