Yeah, @kbarber, the QE folks have been making some major changes to how they expect for projects to interact with the harness on jenkins; that's why most jobs have been pegged to a specific rev.  At some point we need to update to the "new" way they're doing things, and you're correct that this pull request will force our hand, so we'll have to be careful with the timing (but I don't want to let it get too stale, either).