Issue #14376: Removed Parent POM & Updated maven-release-plugin Config to fix Broken mvn-Enforcer Config

[MANISH-K-07]

Closes #14376

@romani , @nrmancuso

In order to remove the parent pom usage, we needed to apply the parent pom's plugin config. See https://github.com/sonatype/oss-parents/blob/master/codehaus-parent/pom.xml for this configuration.

Without updating this configuration, we get the following error:

[ERROR] Project does not define required minimum version of Maven.
[ERROR] Update the pom.xml to contain maven-enforcer-plugin to
[ERROR] force the Maven version which is needed to build this project.

We also had failures in the release-dry-run workflow:

launch (Launcher.java:226)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode (Launcher.java:407)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main (Launcher.java:348)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginContainerException: An API incompatibility was encountered while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.2.1:prepare: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.apache.maven.settings.RuntimeInfo org.apache.maven.settings.Settings.getRuntimeInfo()'

org.sonatype.oss oss-parent 9 :

  <!-- This parent is requirements for deploy of artifacts to maven central -->
  <parent>
    <groupId>org.sonatype.oss</groupId>
    <artifactId>oss-parent</artifactId>
    <version>9</version>
  </parent>

[nrmancuso]

Please investigate https://circleci.com/gh/checkstyle/checkstyle/494961

[nrmancuso]

@MANISH-K-07 please put this PR into draft mode while you work on resolving failure in release-dry-run, then take it out of draft when ready for review

[nrmancuso]

@MANISH-K-07

Removing the parent POM is somehow initiating the error with this plugin.

We need to understand why before we start trying to change versions in a bunch of dependencies.

[nrmancuso]

@MANISH-K-07 Please hide all outdated comments as requested in #14397 (comment) now that we have a good summary in the PR description

[nrmancuso]

Rebased on latest master

[romani]

lets try