- switch ranking statistic to this unconditionally for the October 2018
  open public alert test run.  after the test run and before O3 we will
  introduce more user-friendly plumbing allowing this to work with other
  template banks.
- NOTE:  git-lfs is used for any file ending in .hdf5 in the
  population_models/ tree

streamthinca, far: REVERT ME: A temporary home for the network snr cut which undoes the LR version and puts it back into the ntuple compare func. Once we have ironed out the kinks in the LR version, this should be undone

streamthinca, far: REVERT ME: A temporary home for the network snr cut which undoes the LR version and puts it back into the ntuple compare func. Once we have ironed out the kinks in the LR version, this should be undone

gstlal_ll_feature_extractor_pipe: add kafka/zookeeper nodes to DAG, update idq optimized makefile to deal with different cluster sites better, export kafka opts

- chnage the function of mass used to sort the templates in the bank when
  selecting the median from mtotal to mchirp^(5/3)

The logic for keeping the triggers was not correct, and we modified.
A memory error still remains that does not allow many gstlal_cs_triggergen
jobs to run simultaneously.

gstlal-calibration:  Added debugging element splitcounter for printing buffer timestamps and offsets to screen and file.

gstlal-calibration:  Example in tests/check_calibration/Makefile for using transfer function plotting script.

gstlal-calibration:  New plotting script in tests/check_calibration/plot_transfer_function.py to plot transfer functions.

lal_transferfunction:  added event() function back in to get best possible transfer functions at EOS.