DM-35697: Relocate profile context manager from pipe_base

[timj]

Checklist

• ran Jenkins
• added a release note for user-visible changes to doc/changes

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #131 (ae8b77f) into main (e341ee4) will increase coverage by 0.16%.
The diff coverage is 97.05%.

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+ Coverage   92.08%   92.24%   +0.16%     
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  Files          42       42              
  Lines        2665     2709      +44     
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+ Hits         2454     2499      +45     
+ Misses        211      210       -1     

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
python/lsst/utils/timer.py	96.59% <94.11%> (-0.35%)	⬇️
tests/test_timer.py	99.52% <100.00%> (+0.03%)	⬆️
python/lsst/utils/introspection.py	100.00% <0.00%> (ø)
tests/test_getTempFilePath.py	97.80% <0.00%> (+0.02%)	⬆️
python/lsst/utils/packages.py	88.43% <0.00%> (+0.06%)	⬆️
python/lsst/utils/logging.py	84.67% <0.00%> (+0.12%)	⬆️
python/lsst/utils/iteration.py	96.96% <0.00%> (+0.19%)	⬆️
python/lsst/utils/usage.py	96.00% <0.00%> (+0.34%)	⬆️
tests/test_wrappers.py	98.85% <0.00%> (+0.57%)	⬆️
python/lsst/utils/threads.py	81.81% <0.00%> (+0.86%)	⬆️
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[parejkoj]

A few comments on the python, even though I think this was just moved over from elsewhere.

"ping" commit should be "pin"?

[parejkoj]

Is there a reason not to have this import at the top?

[timj]

I assume @PaulPrice did not want to have the overhead of importing another python module that is very unlikely to be used.