update the http_forward module to allow global request timeouts to be set, use this to implement a 15s upper bound on requests for declaration of support in development.  This should fix unit tests

Reusing staticPath in compress worker and making prefix configurable, removing DRY violation per llyod

at authentication time, if the user has not confirmed ownership of a computer, set a shorter auth period.

Adding disable_locale_check flag to skipping warnings for en-US without gettext files. Fixes Issue#1055

  * all database functions return an err as the first param which is non-null for failure.
  * all wsapis handle database errors and return service unavailable to client.
  * stalled-mysql-test implements unit tests to verify proper failure behavior of all wsapis.
  * configuration parameter added to define max allowed time per query

fix char munging when postprocess is in play serving large files where unicode chars fall on chunk boundaries.  closes #1057

* include.js pointed to the production resource.
* use_minified_version was incorrectly set to true.

cache busting: add 'enable_code_version' configuration - when true return 'code_version' in session_context - also /production/XXX_vYYY.{js,css} calls now map back to /production/XXX.{js,css} - issue #226

add outbound HTTP proxy support to browserid - requires a proxy that can forward http to https traffic - closes #904

Adding i18n to wsapi. Split strings into client.po and messages.po.

Switched email from mustache to EJS templates.

Created fake locale db-LB for development and debugging.

Updated scripts.
See http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc?view=revision&revision=99911

implement a 'maximum request time' for bcrypt work.  server now fails more gracefully under backbreaking load, returning 503s to clients of the authenticate_user api.  update loadgen to be less dramatic about, but still display, 503 errors.  first part of issue #787 - a partial fix for #785 in dere too

upgrade to a branch of statsd that lazily closes ephemeral UDP ports, so that we're not allocating one UDP socket per request when under load.  closes #680

fix regression in keysigner - ensure non-default VAR_PATH is relayed to compute processes - issue #213

improve node.js version checking.  eliminate DRY violation, and use semver for robust version specification and matching.  nice yak, eh?

express our dependency on nodejs >= 0.6.3 in package.json and in code.  (note: I'm not sure package.json actually does anything useful, but it's a good place to document it)c

move generation of ephemeral database names (used in perf/unit testing) to a higher level and out of core code.  also, emphemeral database cleanup is now a responsibility of the harness running the software (test harness, or run_locally.js).  This fixes race conditions in unit tests that restart daemons (closes #557) and simplifies running local performance tests (issue #504)

public and private keys explicitly read, whenever we can't read them we go down with a hard error: closes #581, related to issue #576

in production (dev/beta/prod) use a more conventional logging format that includes timestamps.  closes #234

add the dbwriter process.   it's not yet hooked up, but starts up and runs, and included in health check.