un-hide redis
merge from devel
Merge branch 'feature/api-evolution' into feature/redis
snapshot on becnhmarking rstructuring
merge from devel
Merge branch 'devel' into feature/concurrent_benchmarks
test
refactoring benchmarks
Merge branch 'devel' into feature/concurrent_benchmarks
merge from feature/openstack
Merge branch 'feature/redis' into feature/concurrent_benchmarks
"Stand up, all victims of oppression, for the tyrants fear your might!"

Or, in other words, some small progress towards debuggable multithreading benchmarks.
some locking and tracing support
major cleanup of exception stack handling, stabilize prompt detection in multithreaded apps

there are some major snafus on exception *output*, but at least we get the
bright stack now (mostly)
hello pylint
small fixes in exception creation
cleanup, fix creation of benchmark.dat
snapshot
Merge branch 'devel' into feature/concurrent_benchmarks
more work on becnhmarks, fix eceptions, more thread safety on shell bootstrap