Samuel Paccoud

@arnav13081994 I often use one of Django's templatetag functions directly and think it's ok. I found at least one place in Django's code base where they do that for the...

This happens if you try to use `static` in your settings file because it comes with the `contrib/staticfiles` app that must first be loaded... If you change it in [this...

> Retrieving the password from the LTI request seems impossible. If they send the password in the request it's a huge security issue. I don't understand your comment. Was it...

> You wrote: > > > For teachers, we should probably go further and retrieve their username and password from the LTI request, Oh :exploding_head: I meant `username` and `email`....

I'm thinking: once the "climb on stage" feature is available, we won't need to go through the admin view to join the discussion. Everybody will go through the student view...

So you will also need to record the timezone when a user registers to the live so you know what timezone to use in the email you will send him?

It seems that CloudFront signed urls have a [maximum validity of 7 days](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/presigned-url-s3-bucket-expiration/?nc1=h_ls). Maybe [signed cookies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/private-content-signed-cookies.html) are the solution for this. Our urls would not expire but access control would...

I think we should have a special error state for AWS rate limits so that we can handle retries appropriately? I'm afraid we will hit these limits repeatedly on the...

You could also call the back when the front runs out of video chunks to read to check that the status of the video is still playingn? Trying to avoid...

Not really because there is really something wrong in the way edX handles anonymous user ids: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/blob/master/common/djangoapps/student/models.py#L195 The anonymous id changes every time you modify your Django SECRET_KEY setting. I...