This commit fixes a couple of issues in the merge_spark_pr.py developer script:

- Allow recovery from failed cherry-picks.
- Fix detection of pull requests that have already been merged.

Both of these fixes are useful when backporting changes.

Author: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@apache.org>

Closes #1668 from JoshRosen/pr-script-improvements and squashes the following commits:

ff4f33a [Josh Rosen] Default SPARK_HOME to cwd(); detect missing JIRA credentials.
ed5bc57 [Josh Rosen] Improvements for backporting using merge_spark_pr: