Proposal:

1) Remove IntegrationTest and DistributionTest from "check" target

2) Add a new target (name TBD) that executes IntegrationTest and
DistributionTest

Reasons:

1) new people who clone and then build wait forever and complain that build
hung resulting in bad first impression by users

2) Index-Geodein5minutes instructs user to skip tests but internet wisdom
says never use -Dskip.tests=true

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Index#Index-Geodein5minutes

3) non-developers don't need to run IntegrationTest and DistributedTest --
they just want to clone, build and try out basics to see if they want to
become a Geode User

4) anyone who decides they want to become a developer can easily learn that
we invoke a target to run the long-running tests -- we can easily document
this everywhere if people are truly worried about it

5) this change encourages us to improve our coverage with fast-running
UnitTests

Anti-goals

1) I'm not suggesting that anyone can commit changes without running the
long-running tests

-Kirk

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