We had a bug where mixins weren't being applied before `load_from_xml`
was called. This meant that not all of the fields were being loaded
correctly. To fix it, we used the mixoligist from the runtime to apply
the mixins earlier in the process. However, that caused the mixins to be
applied twice.
The included fixes to xblock resolved the multiply-applied mixins, and
the fixes to the parsing code make it simpler to understand, and add
some unit tests of the parsing to boot.
No one reads the pylint reports, we just want the messages.
setUp and tearDown don't need docstrings.
More ways to mark arguments as unused.
More tweaks
The most common error is Amazon SES having blacklisted an email address.
However, we handle any error being raised during user.email_user.
Fixes JIRA LMS-131
