When releasing the versioned assets work, we stumbled on a problem with old pickled versions of the StaticContent objects residing in cache, which triggered a bug in the code. Not wanting to blow away all cached items, we ended up having to revert and add in some backwards-compatible helper code to ease the transition. With this, we'll now utilize the version argument that Django's caching interface allows, in conjunction with a constant value that can be modified when breaking changes are being made, to let us gracefully ignore older cached course assets.
common ------ This directory contains common code shared between LMS and CMS, such as Mako templates, CSS, and Coffescript.