Improvements to configuration

• changed the way slots are loaded from the configuration directory
• use configuration from gitlab instead of svn
• added fields to Slot and Project
• other minor changes

Added 3 commits:

• 1732f691 - added special field Slot._source
• 4b36263a - prefer log to logging where possible
• 457734da - fixed pylama(pep8) warnings

Added 2 commits:

• 29fa9ff5 - fixed pylama(pep8) warnings in Configuration.py
• 9bb0e5a9 - fixed pylama(pep8) warnings in Common.py

mentioned in commit LHCbNightlyConf@97647982

Added 5 commits:

• b1c3d17a - relaxed restriction onf config .json file names
• 9ada3f71 - fixed pylama(pep8) warnings in test_config_load.py
• 4d395155 - fixed pylama(pep8) warnings in test_coverity_support.py
• 95b60574 - fixed pylama(pep8) warnings in test_checkout.py
• 48408da4 - fixed branch name detection in test_checkout.py

Added 2 commits:

• c1930585 - fixed mistake in test
• c94abde9 - removed test that cannot work now that tags are not in SVN

Added 2 commits:

• c9a34c40 - slightly changed a couple of tests to work on CentOS7
• 2db23795 - fixed isolation problem with tests

Added 7 commits:

• 8daa909b - relaxed restriction onf config .json file names
• 30d2955e - fixed branch name detection in test_checkout.py
• 91a3a555 - fixed mistake in test
• b1302bc9 - removed test that cannot work now that tags are not in SVN
• e24f5ad6 - slightly changed a couple of tests to work on CentOS7
• ace130f6 - fixed isolation problem with tests
• 199dc0a9 - replaced a few test asserts with wrapper function

Added 2 commits:

• c236ed43 - added Slot.enabled and Project.enabled field
• 91fad80a - use .enabled instead of .disabled to improve readability

Added 4 commits:

• 040d6bb1 - added deployment field to Slot objects
• 6e3348a3 - improved layout of slots summary dump
• 192f1202 - use print instead of logging for slots summary report
• 4b0fe39d - prettified slots sumamry via Python tabulate module

Added 6 commits:

• cfaa500e - moved TemporaryDir from tests.utils to Utils
• 96324ef6 - added a default CMTCONFIG if not set to test_coverity_support.py
• bb2a3166 - added script to get slots on a deployment medium
• 95a90131 - added option to use a directory in lbn-slots-by-deployment
• 4efb902a - use lbn-slots-by-deployment
• 6dbb72f6 - updated NightlyBuildsOperation.rst

Unmarked this merge request as a Work In Progress

Changed title: Improvements to configuration loading → Improvements to configuration

Status changed to merged

mentioned in commit 34669412