Migration cleanup

[dschristianson]

Additional cleanup from migration effort. Remove the following functionality no longer needed:

• translate early base,
• detect jira failures -- the new format driver catches these now
• large portion of prebase regen -- only keep the incomplete publish reset

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• [x] I have reviewed my code to check that it contains no sensitive information.
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• [x] My changes generate no new warnings
• [x] I have added tests or modified existing tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• [x] Existing unit tests pass locally with my changes

[dschristianson]

You are correct -- thanks for the catch. Reverting back to the prior commit.