Che-Server: Develocity integration

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Is your enhancement related to a problem? Please describe

As one of the impactful Eclipse projects, we (the Develocity Solutions team) would like to invite you to be a part of the Eclipse Develocity evaluation initiative.

Describe the solution you'd like

This improvement will enhance the functionality of the Che-Server build by publishing build scans to develocity-staging.eclipse.org, hosted by the Eclipse Foundation and run in partnership between the Eclipse Foundation and Gradle. This Develocity is freely available for use by the Eclipse Che-Server project and all other Eclipse projects.

On this Develocity instance, the Eclipse Che-Server project will have access not only to all of the published build scans but also to other aggregate data features such as:

• Dashboards to view all historical build scans, along with performance trends over time. For example, look at the Quarkus instance trends dashboard with the ci filter applied.
• Build failure analytics for enhanced investigation and diagnosis of build failures. You can also explore the Quarkus instance for example of a different OSS projects Develocity instance.
• Test failure analytics to better understand trends and causes around slow, failing, and flaky tests. Going to the Quarkus instance again, this will probably give you a better representation of the type of data available. You can also order it by flakiness, which is a good starting point when deciding which tests need fixing the most.

This will also enable you to (optionally) use build time optimization features, such as build caching and Predictive Test Selection.

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Additional context

Here is a blog post abut Develocity from Eclipse Foundation, as well as a Develocity presentation, made in collaboration with Eclipse Foundation (and Gradle).

More information can be read in the Eclipse announcement.

IMPORTANT: If your project is interested in being a part of this initiative, please reach out to Eclipse infra by filling out a helpdesk ticket to get the CI setup and credentials.