Stanford-Online/class2go — pull request #1298 by jrbl (2012-11-15 00:45:59+00:00)
Title: Jrbl cleanups

My goal here was to make it easier for the next person to startup without losing time because of missing latent knowledge. Also addresses #1225.

I'm not sure if a pull request is the right instrument; it seems a little blunt. I'd like review and testing from other people, particularly @sefk. This is my earlier cleanup work, sans some gratuitous file reformats and chef changes, and broken into multiple step-wise commits so it's easier to follow what's going on. I expect comments will result in more work on the branch though.

I've tested this branch on my local site and this material (in the mega-big nasty commit last night) on Stage, where I tried uploads, resizing, kelvination, exam page loading on S3.

The existing recipes for gdata and s3 patching are still there, but don't need to be; they should each be replaced with a system package installation stanza. I'm less sure I can do that right so I wanted to make it a separate thing.

If this looks good, it can be merged for sprint 22.