Merge pull request #1025 from shenrie/master

Adding generic prepare resource support
fix statuses, add more tests
Merge pull request #1026 from ifreecarve/2013-05-02_buildbot_fix

fix statuses, fix buildbot, add more tests
Use patched gevent on our repo instead
add scheduler sheet to support UNS batch processing
remove log
Added alert manager to platform agent.
add strip()
Merge pull request #1027 from MauriceManning/loadScheduler

Load scheduler
Bunp pyon so base agent flushes state as necessary in non RPC threads.
Flush agent state where in a non rpc threads.
proper handling of child device status
Reworked persistence tests, and increased timout for buildbot.
Merge pull request #1028 from ifreecarve/2013-05-02_buildbot_fix

proper handling of child device status combined with parent device status
better error message
Merge pull request #1029 from ifreecarve/2013-05-02_force_clean

better error message
Exclude a bunch from coverage
Bumped pyon
Bumped ion-defs
Refactored agent policy for direct access