Before this change, the notify_credentials management command ran for
about 10-15 minutes and occasionally overlapped with an edxapp
deployment which would cause the machine the command was running
on to die. The command ran through a bunch of certs and grades, and then
spun off celery tasks to send the relevant data to credentials.
Now, most of the logic of the notify_credentials management command has
been moved into a new celery task, so that combing through longs lists
of certs and grades is done asynchronously. This task then spins off the
original data-sending tasks as before.
Note that this requires a change in alerting: where the jenkins job
would previously notify us about failures, we need to know when this
new celery task fails for any reason. We’ve made this a LoggedTask
so that failures will be logged to Splunk and alerting can be built off
of the error messages.
This commit also moves the relevant tests.
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