Premix partial 141115 p3

[davidlange6]

Much of premixing forward port from 70x release cycle by Mike including code cleanup.
Identity in standard workflows checked at level of 200 events of wf25203 unless I missed something.

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @davidlange6 (David Lange) for CMSSW_7_3_X.

Premix partial 141115 p3

It involves the following packages:

Configuration/PyReleaseValidation
Configuration/StandardSequences
DataFormats/SiStripCommon
EventFilter/SiStripRawToDigi
RecoLocalTracker/SiStripZeroSuppression
SLHCUpgradeSimulations/Configuration
SimCalorimetry/CaloSimAlgos
SimCalorimetry/EcalSimAlgos
SimCalorimetry/EcalSimProducers
SimCalorimetry/HcalSimAlgos
SimCalorimetry/HcalTrigPrimProducers
SimGeneral/DataMixingModule
SimGeneral/MixingModule
SimTracker/SiStripDigitizer

@civanch, @nclopezo, @vlimant, @mdhildreth, @cmsbuild, @franzoni, @StoyanStoynev, @slava77, @mulhearn, @davidlange6 can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@ghellwig, @nickmccoll, @jlagram, @wmtan, @makortel, @forthommel, @yduhm, @GiacomoSguazzoni, @gbenelli, @rovere, @VinInn, @appeltel, @cnuttens, @prolay, @venturia, @gpetruc, @cerati, @argiro, @threus, @dgulhan, @LBeck this is something you requested to watch as well.
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@nclopezo you are the release manager for this.
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[slava77]

@cmsbuild
are the jenkins tests running already?

[cmsbuild]

+1
Tested at: 137a589
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-6431/919/summary.html

[cmsbuild]

Comparison is ready
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-6431/919/summary.html

[slava77]

Just for a reference: the SiStrip changes (apparently the only RECO changes) were in #5952

[StoyanStoynev]

+1
For 137a589.
The RECO part of the PR is identical to the one in #5952 (70X) which was signed off. Also jenkins here show no difference in monitored quantities.