This commit adds the requisite settings and startup features to
enable integration of themes into the edX platform. It does not
yet provide hooks in any of the templates, but it does cause the
main `lms/static/sass/application.scss` file to `@import` a theme's
base Sass. Template hooks will come down the road.
CHANGELOG
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Define a new `MITX_FEATURE`, `USE_CUSTOM_THEME`, that when enabled,
can be used in templates to determine whether or not custom theme
templates should be used instead of the defaults.
Also define a new setting, `THEME_NAME`, which will be used to
locate theme-specific files. Establish the convention that themes
will be stored outside of the `REPO_ROOT`, inside the `ENV_ROOT`,
in a directory named `themes/`. `themes/<THEME_NAME>` will store
the files for a particular theme.
Provide a function, `enable_theme`, that modifies the template and
static asset load paths appropriately to include the theme's files.
Move the main LMS Sass file to a Mako template that conditionally
`@import`s the theme's base Sass file when a theme is enabled.
Add logic to the assets Rakefile to properly preprocess any Sass/
Mako templates before compiling them.
According to someone from Datadog, this was generating tags like "knowledgeable_
people_who_put_this_course_together._this_is_harvard._you_can_t_tell_us_there_s_
a_shortage_of_editorial_talent." They say that they can handle tens or hundreds
of unique tags but not thousands. Given that we have a unique URL for each
thread, we can't even use that as a tag. Thus, all tags are removed for now
until we can determine whether there is a useful set of tags with small enough
cardinality. In light of this, I did not investigate why the long tag mentioned
above was being generated.
The LMS comment client previously would try to parse the response
as JSON, choke, and return a 500 to the client. Now, the LMS client
displays a message indicating that the forums are down for
maintenance.
If a course is not started, the course image and title on the dashboard link
to the course about page. Because the LMS course about pages do not exist
(i.e. 404) with the marketing site enabled, we simply do not use a link if
the course has not started.
If a user is already registered for a course but the course has not started
yet, display a grey button that says "you are registered" and goes nowhere
instead of the blue "access courseware" button, which goes to the LMS course
about page (which 404s).
