This is a performance optimization; see the comment. This fixes part
of #9953.
Eventually, we should do the same thing for importing Tornado as well,
but it's less important because Tornado is a much smaller library.
This enforces our use of a consistent style in how we access Python
modules; "from os.path import dirname" is a particularly popular
abbreviation inconsistent with our style, and so it deserves a lint
rule.
Commit message and error text tweaked by tabbott.
Fixes#6543.
The manage.py change effectively switches the Zulip production server
to use the virtualenv, since all of our supervisord commands for the
various Python services go through manage.py.
Additionally, this migrates the production scripts and Nagios plugins
to use the virtualenv as well.
Because import_module does not correctly handle safe circular imports we
need to import zerver.models first before the middleware tries to import it.
(imported from commit 1afebd8c950c44c8d136b0b63a09319ccef02555)
This includes a hack to preserve humbug/backends.py as a symlink, so
that we don't need to regenerate all our old sessions.
(imported from commit b7918988b31c71ec01bbdc270db7017d4069221d)
Tim Abbott
julianasobreira
Aditya Bansal
Umair Khan
Eklavya Sharma
Luke Faraone
Tim Abbott
Tim Abbott