Adjust test get set agent to ignore qc and other fields not produced by instrument directly.
Skip agent persistence tests that fail on builbot only.
Merge pull request #1007 from lukecampbell/qc

QC Work
Added triggering logic and tests for command error alerts.
Merge pull request #1008 from lukecampbell/qc

Fixes typing issues
Bumped pyon
Merge pull request #1009 from shenrie/master

Bumped pyon
fix initial attempt to incorporate LAUNCHING state and corresponding transition
remove flag LAUNCH_CHILDREN_ON_START (which was used to facilitate testing of
  the launch of the children in on_start and also in INITIALIZE). The launch of the children is now always started (via a greenlet) in on_start.
Merge pull request #1010 from carueda/platform_agent_R2C4

fix initial attempt to incorporate LAUNCHING state and corresponding transition, and add needed associated handling
Use sddevrepo port_agent instead
data type and content fixes for extended platform resources
Merge pull request #1011 from ifreecarve/2013-04-29_platform_extended

Data type and content fixes for extended platform resources
Release Version 2.0.28
Bump Version to 2.0.29-dev
Merge pull request #1012 from lukecampbell/qc

Man in the middle approach to stream configurations
Update aparam_alerts_config name typo.
Added ion_loader comments
Fixed types of TemporalBounds attributes
Fixed OOI preload for external dataset categories