setting group perms on the virtualenv to www-data, version of

edx-platform

playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/deploy.yml

@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@
   - install
   - deploy
 
+- name: changing group ownership to www-data for everything in the venv (workaround)
+  shell: chgrp -R www-data {{ venv_dir }}
+
 # This check needs to be run to see if rake can be used but its failure should not stop the run.
 - name: check if rake gather_assets is available
   shell: executable=/bin/bash chdir={{ edx_platform_code_dir }} rake -T | grep gather_assets

playbooks/roles/edxapp/vars/main.yml

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ edxapp_theme_version: 'HEAD'
 
 # make this the public URL instead of writable
 lms_source_repo: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform.git
-lms_version: 'HEAD'
+lms_version: 'release'
 local_requirements_file:  "{{ edx_platform_code_dir }}/requirements/edx/local.txt"
 pre_requirements_file:    "{{ edx_platform_code_dir }}/requirements/edx/pre.txt"
 post_requirements_file:   "{{ edx_platform_code_dir }}/requirements/edx/post.txt"