[core] Fixing squid:S1319 -  Declarations should use Java collection interfaces such as "List" rather than specific implementation classes such as "LinkedList".
(manolama - updated bindings added since the PR)

Signed-off-by: Chris Larsen <clarsen@yahoo-inc.com>

- define checkstyle configs in as few places as possible
- use checkstyle:check since it has defaults that match what we want (fail after logging to console)
- modules that have current failures set property checkstyle.failOnViolation to false.

re-enable in the build.

Updated the binding to use the new Status class.

re-enable in the build.

Updated the binding to use the new Status class.

Rename README file to README.md file for the following DB bindings so the build process can generate binding specific tar balls for them. (currently they are broken because the build process looks for README.md)

dynamodb
hypertable
mapkeeper
nosqldb

As a part of branching to stage 0.2.0 release in #266, set version
for continued development on master branch.

* remove unused declared deps in a few places
* lex sort modules in top level pom
* update maven plugin versions.
* no more jar-with-dependencies
* set ycsb-core to provided in bindings
* introduce a bindings-parent pom that sets
** stage dependency copy on building binding
** iff binding has a README.md, build a binding-specific dist artifact
* update distribution assembly to
** properly build after modules
** use per-binding sets of dependencies

closes #250

* Need a SNAPSHOT version because non-SNAPSHOT is reserved for actual releases.
* Increment minor version per pre-1.0 guidelines from the Version Numbers guide

Fixes #236.