Julia Eskew (Deactivated) and and I are in the process of wrapping up an attempt to separate out the modulestore and "closely related" code from edx-platform and glean information about teasing out code from the platform monolith. This document is one of two that are the primary artifacts from this attempt and should shed some light on the process in the event that we wish to try this again in the future. The shortest version of this tale is that we did not succeed in moving the modulestore code at this time, but did succeed in learning a lot about the process of extracting code from edx-platform as well as how edX can better handle projects like this in the future.
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