Squashed commit of the following:

commit 6d78ed6c60db745fcefe8a8d8592e9b483f73d16
Merge: 66d94f2 51864d2
Author: Andy Perlitch <andyperlitch@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 15:25:25 2014 -0800

    Merge branch 'master' into less_precomp.MLHR-731

    Conflicts:
    	front/css/bootstrap-overrides.css

commit 66d94f27074d0d95838a9906590672385b526a32
Author: Andy Perlitch <andyperlitch@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 15:20:20 2014 -0800

    added .css files to gitignore

commit 8e68d558641efe5d56a985092865184bd2d4fcdb
Author: Andy Perlitch <andyperlitch@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 12:49:00 2014 -0800

    updated make command for index.less change

commit d8041bed47adc72b219a0bf49f8678ce21e8229c
Author: Andy Perlitch <andyperlitch@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 12:47:54 2014 -0800

    removed import statements for variables

commit 54c6c87a53bc05c8273acb0a64843d3039b594d4
Author: Andy Perlitch <andyperlitch@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 12:46:41 2014 -0800

    added back bootstrap css test file

commit 6a92f2893020e4d970ce55a8a570eed0cbcc57a5
Author: Andy Perlitch <andyperlitch@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 12:44:02 2014 -0800

    removed index.built.less file, replaced with index.less file

commit 6a9700df0fa494fd7459e15562157dd1d47c8565
Author: Andy Perlitch <andyperlitch@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 12:43:30 2014 -0800

    removed vanilla css files

commit 146d64cbd112159396f6b772b176bc0ca4a9f415
Author: Andy Perlitch <andyperlitch@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 12:40:59 2014 -0800

    added on-the-fly less compilation

commit 107a4133b0779f026aad4ff691c3101379b7789e
Author: Andy Perlitch <andyperlitch@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 12:15:08 2014 -0800

    added less-middleware module
Merge pull request #692 from andyperlitch/MLHR-731

Less now compiled on the fly, CSS files no longer tracked
Updating to RC5
Merging pom.xml changes
added number of retries when committing functionality
Merge pull request #693 from chandnisingh/DB-ENH

added number of retries when committing functionality
MLHR-739 #resolve
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:DataTorrent/Malhar