The operator framework portfolio consists of a number of projects that
have an upstream project. The verify-commits makefile target had been
introduced in each of the downstream  projects to assist with the
downstreaming efforts. The commit checking logic was eventually moved
into a container and was rolled out as the verify-commits-shared test,
which ran alongside the verify-commits test to ensure that it worked
as expected.

We are now confident that the verify-commits-shared test is running as
expected, and can replace the logic used in the verify-commits test with
that of the verify-commits-shared test, which will allow us to remove
the verify-commits Makefile targets from each of the repos, simplifying
the code base and reducing duplication of code.