Maple: cherry-pick rapid response commits

[pdpinch]

Rapid Response xBlock is an xBlock aside that we deploy with the residential platform that adds real-time charting to multiple-choice problems. It's used in synchronous courses at MIT.

• [ ] review the code in bbe7d0628d and determine what of it is necessary to support the xblock (the commit is quite messy)
• [ ] if possible, upstream the necessary code
• [ ] if not possible to upstream, create a plugin in https://github.com/mitodl/open-edx-plugins if possible
• [ ] if neither of those options work, open a PR on the mitx/maple branch with the needed code

[pdpinch]

There may be some useful information in https://github.com/mitodl/rapid-response-xblock/issues/79

[arslanashraf7]

Update:

While working on this ticket and looking through the commit(s) we've been cherry-picking (https://github.com/mitodl/edx-platform/commit/bbe7d0628d2f4f0800406f18b65d066525f766ce) I saw some inconsistencies which I'm going to list down below for the sake of posterity:

• We've been cherry-picking a chunk of code(this & this) that was actually once a part of edX and was removed in a PR some time ago but since our commits had that code in them from past cherry-picks so we somehow kept on carrying that code ahead thinking we need it.
• At some point when we cherry-picked(https://github.com/mitodl/edx-platform/issues/254) we had to fix some import errors in other files (Canvas Integration & Remote Gradebook) to make the platform work and those changes became part of the commit.
• We've created our own CSV generation function but there is a possibility that we can refactor that and use this utility csv function from the platform.

All the above points fixed/being fixed can be seen in this PR (https://github.com/mitodl/edx-platform/pull/275)

A Question/Clarification: There is another ticket about refactoring download reports (https://github.com/mitodl/open-edx-plugins/issues/9) and the commits mentioned in that have been a part of the cherry-pick we have been doing for rapid response. And I believe both this ticket & https://github.com/mitodl/edx-platform/pull/275 are interdependent and can/should be done in a single cycle & single plugin once created. Is my assumption correct?

FYI, @pdpinch

[pdpinch]

Yes I agree that these can all be addressed in one PR for the plug-in. Thank you for catching that.

I believe both this ticket & #275 are interdependent and can/should be done in a single cycle & single plugin once created. Is my assumption correct?

[arslanashraf7]

Closed via https://github.com/mitodl/open-edx-plugins/pull/17 & https://github.com/mitodl/open-edx-plugins/pull/17