Alignment filters 76X (Backport of #12776)

[ghellwig]

Tools to streamline the alignment work-flow and the corresponding validation.
These tools have been presented in
https://indico.cern.ch/event/442133/session/0/contribution/4/attachments/1203128/1751921/talk.pdf

Backport of #12776

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @ghellwig (Gregor Mittag) for CMSSW_7_6_X.

It involves the following packages:

Alignment/CommonAlignment

@diguida, @cerminar, @cmsbuild, @franzoni, @mmusich, @davidlange6 can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@mschrode, @pakhotin, @mmusich, @tlampen this is something you requested to watch as well.
@slava77, @Degano, @smuzaffar you are the release manager for this.

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[mmusich]

please test

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Pull request #12778 was updated. @diguida, @cerminar, @cmsbuild, @franzoni, @mmusich, @davidlange6 can you please check and sign again.

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[mmusich]

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[mmusich]

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This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_7_6_X IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request requires discussion in the ORP meeting before it's merged. @slava77, @davidlange6, @Degano, @smuzaffar

[davidlange6]

+1