Previously software secure was using self sign certificates.
Now they are not using it that's why we are enabling ssl
certificate verfication.
PROD-1395
We want to allow staff to see all courses in the LMS.
This changes the behavior from staff being treated like
an AnonymousUser (unless an username query parameter is
provided) to being treated like staff.
I also added in some tests for the other paths in this
function that did not seem to be tested.
We'll upgrade this again along with pytest once pytest-dev/pytest#6925 is resolved.
Also, it looks like a flaky error in test class DB setup outside a transaction was mucking things up for the rest of the test shard. I didn't try to fix the flakiness, but this should at least limit the blast radius to just that test class. We really need to start using setUpTestData() more consistently.
We're seeing slow commits on production for courseware_studentmodule
updates. Based on the slow queries during those times, we think it
might be because multiple worker processes are trying to update the
same rows from within long-running transactions (since courseware
is relatively slow).
The risk with this is that since the whole view execution is no
longer wrapped in a big implicit transaction, it's possible that
XBlock state will update and things that key off of that (e.g.
completion progress information or pre-req milestones) will fail
in a way that will leave the database in an unplanned-for state,
though this is already the case for those actions that trigger
asynchronous tasks like grades recalculation.
The query counts for the index view test were adjusted down
because save points count towards the total and we're no longer
setting them at the top level around the view as a whole.
* Converting variable to string before assignment in tests
Django 2 is stricter of string typing, so it will no longer do implicit conversions in some cases.
While the release notes only mention dropping bytestring support in some places, they seem to have also dropped implicit conversion to str for whole host of things.
Background: I use private.py a lot in my devstack for my private configurations. But issues are raised when I need to change/override a setting that is defined in devstack_docker.py file. Since that file's contents are loaded after private.py, my private.py is useless against the settings in devstack_docker.py.
Description: Now that the devstack is dockerized, I think it makes more sense to import the private.py in the devstack_docker.py files i.e. at the end of configuration files hierarchy.
