fixing release build issue

The release build here:
https://jenkins.inova.dfw1.ci.rackspace.net/view/Preferences%20Svc/job/preferences-service-release/7/console

showed that the artifacts built was named as workspace-1.0.0.jar, because that's the directory where Jenkins checked out the source code. 

To fix this, I had to explicitly set the project name in a file called ```settings.gradle```.

The change on the other file was to remove a flag of release plugin that I thought was going to prevent the plugin from issuing "git status -sb", which did not work on the Jenkins boxes because of older version of git installed there. Well, that flag didn't help.