Backport of PR#22411 for HLT development

[albertdow]

This is the backport PR for #22411
Required for HLT development for VBF + tau triggers.

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @albertdow for CMSSW_10_0_X.

It involves the following packages:

RecoTauTag/HLTProducers

@Martin-Grunewald, @silviodonato, @cmsbuild, @fwyzard can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@davidlange6, @slava77, @fabiocos you are the release manager for this.

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[Martin-Grunewald]

please test

[cmsbuild]

The tests are being triggered in jenkins.
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/jenkins/job/ib-any-integration/26648/console Started: 2018/03/07 14:27

[cmsbuild]

+1
Tested at: b139a30
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-22507/26648/summary.html

[cmsbuild]

Comparison job queued.

[Martin-Grunewald]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_10_0_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_10_1_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @davidlange6, @slava77, @smuzaffar, @fabiocos (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[cmsbuild]

Comparison is ready
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-22507/26648/summary.html

Comparison Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 4 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 27
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 2468459
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 1
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 2468289
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 169
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.97999999993 KiB( 22 files compared)
• Checked 111 log files, 9 edm output root files, 27 DQM output files

[fabiocos]

+1