Get rid of Rachet to fix failing build

[naveentatikonda]

Signed-off-by: Naveen [email protected]

Description

Get rid of rachet and apply spotless on every PR before raising it like in main branch. Making this change to fix the OS distribution build failure

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':spotlessCheck'.
> Could not create task ':spotlessJavaCheck'.
   > Could not create task ':spotlessJava'.
      > No such reference 'origin/1.x'

Issues Resolved

#647

Check List

• All tests pass
• Commits are signed as per the DCO using --signoff

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[martin-gaievski]

Do we need to backport it to 1.3?

[naveentatikonda]

Do we need to backport it to 1.3?

Yes, we need to backport it. The backport workflow in 1.x branch seems to be outdated and is not working. I will fix the workflow and for now will backport it manually