of performace of updates. Introducing hierarchical counters, counter metatdata
and finer-grained handling of counter flush. Added unit tests and changed some
of the API calls

Floodlight: typo in Controller.java (https://github.com/bigswitch/bigswitchcontroller/pull/3470)

Move test modules which were erroneously included in main module resourc... (https://github.com/bigswitch/bigswitchcontroller/pull/3426)

remove duplicate IFloodlightModules that provides debugCounter/debugEvent services (https://github.com/bigswitch/bigswitchcontroller/pull/3453)

OrderedCollection is a marker interface that extens Collection. It
simply clarifies that the Collection has a well-defined iteration oder
although the interface itself doesn't specify the order. It's used to
return ordered PortChangeEvents

Topolgoy: don't remove ports the collection returned by the switch.  Make BVS port names case-insensitive

Fix snmp MIB problem and make two static variables final (https://github.com/bigswitch/bigswitchcontroller/pull/3428)

BigTest failure fix (https://github.com/bigswitch/bigswitchcontroller/pull/3430)

Conflicts:
	bigfloodlight/src/test/java/com/bigswitch/floodlight/BigOFSwitchOVSTest.java
	floodlight/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/core/internal/Controller.java

Update thrift to newer version and regenerate files (https://github.com/bigswitch/bigswitchcontroller/pull/3402)

[BVS-498] Prefixes for port names can be specified in the properties file in order to classify the ports as uplink ports, thus not autoportfast them. (https://github.com/bigswitch/bigswitchcontroller/pull/3389)

Conflicts:
	floodlight/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/core/OFSwitchBase.java
	floodlight/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/core/internal/OFChannelHandler.java
	floodlight/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/linkdiscovery/internal/LinkDiscoveryManager.java
	floodlight/src/test/java/net/floodlightcontroller/util/OFMessageDamperMockSwitch.java

BSC-2082 Simple java wrapper for posting notification  (https://github.com/bigswitch/bigswitchcontroller/pull/3363)

[BVS-498] Uplink port prefixes can be specified in bigfloodlight.properties.  This prefixes will be used for classifying a port as an uplink port, thus autoportfast will not be used on those ports.

cleanup property files  (https://github.com/bigswitch/bigswitchcontroller/pull/3375)

Remove bigtap tests from cli coverage and ha tests. (https://github.com/bigswitch/bigswitchcontroller/pull/3359)

- Simple interfaces and a syslog implementation for notification.
- Post notification for switch disconnect, link add, link update or link rmeove.

Remove source and destination port status from LinkInfo data strucuture.  The source/destination port info is also removed in model and CLI.