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  • John Mark Walker Introduction
  • Django 1.11 – Final Countdown
    • Django 1.11 has an alter to the auth_user table to increase the username column size.
      • edX platform team exploring ways of keeping the site up in a "read only" mode while the migration is happening.  More to come.
  • Hawthorn
    • Blocked by
      • Django 1.11 upgrade
      • pip-tools enhancement
    • See Hawthorn page for more information.
  • Community Questions
    • Memory leaks in LMS/CMS for Ginkgo (appears to be occurring due to content encoding bugs in https://github.com/mitodl/edx-platform/blob/mitx%2Fginkgo/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/x_module.py#L884)
      • Others have seen this as well.
      • People have generally been just restarting gunicorn after some number of requests.
    • Is a new version of MongoDB required for Hawthorn?
      • No, but at some point pymongo will be upgraded at 3.x which will mean Mongo 2.6 will no longer work with it.
    • Are you going to move to redis?
      • No we already did it.
      • The changes will be in hawthorne.  You do not need to upgrade to Redis as a part of hawthorn.
    • Is Stanford certs going to be merged into edx-certificates?
      • More discussion needs to happen here.
  • Ned Questions
    • What talk should the edx devops team do?
      • Installation of insights and ecommerce
        • Especially on How do you install them on a separate server from the LMS?
      • Something around course-discovery?
        • Publisher in particular.

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