Modify build scripts to populate database with build metrics

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4916]) adjustments to build/test/email scripts to populate a database and cut down on superfluous build report emails. Re #1331

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4919]) fixing mistake that prevented script working on mac/linux. Re #1331

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4920]) Another error, imposed by previous fix. Re #1331

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4921]) using fully qualified network name for server holding the database. Re #1331

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4922]) same mistake as revision 4919. variable not declared hindering linux/mac script when it comes to doxygen. Re #1331

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4924]) reversing changes made because there are issues that can't be left over the weekend. Re #1331

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4934]) changes made to build/test/email scripts to cut try and down on superfluous buildserver emails. Re #1331

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4956]) adding methods to gather metrics for mantidplot build and installers. re #1331

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4957]) re #1331. typo in each of these files.

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4963]) re #1331 - fixed reference to imported module in qtiplot/installers

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4964]) re #1331 - again, differences in variable names between these scripts and framework build scripts. apologies.

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4965]) re #1331 - adding omitted import

[Michael Whitty]

(In [4966]) re #1331 - adjusted Build/sendEmail.py to deal with the (previously unknown) possibility that svn.log is empty when a build is forced manually.

[Russell Taylor]

(In [4971]) Make sure installer files are updated before running. Re #1331.

[Michael Whitty]

(In [5014]) re #1331 - make sure the database has a record of the date for all svn revisions to increase value of charting.

[Michael Whitty]

(In [5087]) setting sendEmail scripts to report to a more permanent location on shadow, refs #1331

[Michael Whitty]

(In [5089]) re #1331 - to avoid a bug in some versions of python that was causing builds to fail, switch to using urllib rather than urllib2.

[Michael Whitty]

(In [5095]) re #1331 - urllib has different exceptions to urllib2, making necessary changes to scripts for this

[Peter Peterson]

(In [5200]) Adding script to make it possible to remotely check the build server status. Refs #1331.

[Peter Peterson]

(In [5205]) Changing default revisions to make tracking down an error in the build system easier. Refs #1331.

[Peter Peterson]

(In [5206]) Changing default revisions to make tracking down an error in the build system easier. Refs #1331.

[Michael Whitty]

(In [5746]) re #1331 - adjusting qtiplot build/sendemail script to give more detail when the build fails (ie, the svn log).

[Nick Draper]

fill in missing resolution

[Anders Markvardsen]

Seems to be working, see ​http://download.mantidproject.org/build_metrics/

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​2178