Change 0dc868e7 removed the `conf/slaves` file and made it a template like most of the other configuration files. This means you can no longer run `make-distribution.sh` unless you manually create a slaves file to be statically bundled in your distribution, which seems at odds with making it a template file.

Author: Sarah Gerweck <sarah.a180@gmail.com>

Closes #2549 from sarahgerweck/noMoreSlaves and squashes the following commits:

d11d99a [Sarah Gerweck] Slaves file is now a template.