Develop validation post processor

[webermat]

Backport code to 74X. The PR has been merged into 75X already previously.

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @webermat for CMSSW_7_4_X.

Develop validation post processor

It involves the following packages:

Configuration/StandardSequences
Validation/Configuration
Validation/RecoJets
Validation/RecoMET

@civanch, @nclopezo, @cvuosalo, @mdhildreth, @cmsbuild, @franzoni, @deguio, @slava77, @danduggan, @davidlange6 can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
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[civanch]

please test

[cmsbuild]

The tests are being triggered in jenkins.

[slava77]

+1

for #8504 a71cf7f

• the count of changes and the changed files are as in the 75X version Develop validation post processor #7948
• jenkins tests run OK
• there are no differences in the jenkins comparisons

[davidlange6]

breaks unscheduled validation. I will back out for now. You can reproduce the problems via

runTheMatrix.py -l 11325 -i all