Help needed - develop/maintain with django-config-models repo

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Hello,

I need some help with this repository:

https://github.com/openedx/django-config-models

I use Ubuntu 24.04 and have a running Tutor in my virtual environment (direnv) running.

As far as I could see, django_config_models is not part of the standard edx platform here:

https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform

I’m right?

So it is also not part of a Tutor installation as far as I found in my research?

My goal is to be able to maintain the django-config-models repository.

My approach was until now: If djanog-config-models is not part of Tutor I propably have to activate it there?

Or I just have to copy this repository in edx-platform/lms/djangoapps
and edx-platform/cms/djangoapps before I do:

tutor mounts add ./edx-platform

see here (https://docs.tutor.edly.io/dev.html

My first approach was to install django-config-models in Tutor in this way:

tutor local run lms bash
pip install django-config-models
exit
tutor config save --set 'EDXAPP_INSTALLED_APPS=["config_models"]'
tutor local restart lms
tutor local run lms ./manage.py lms makemigrations
tutor local run lms ./manage.py lms migrate

here are 2 pictures of the output, please zoom in:

Tutor - django_config_models - 01
Tutor - django_config_models - 01811×575 239 KB

Tutor - django_config_models - 02
Tutor - django_config_models - 02800×720 360 KB

A lot of deprecated packing warnings appeared.

In Tutor in don’t found the right directories for configuring a test configuration model in a models.py in an App.

So probably this is the wrong way to go.

It is right to install django-config-models in Tutor or is it not needed before mounting edx Platform?

I started a second approach:
0. I use direnv and are in that directory:

  1. Make a fork of the edx-platform at Gihub
  2. git clone my_edx_fork
  3. Make a fork of the django-config-models repo at Github
  4. change to path edx-platform
  5. git clone my_django-config-models_fork
  6. cd ..
  7. Im back in direnv main directory now
  8. tutor mounts add ./edx-platform
  9. tutor images build openedx-dev
  10. tutor dev launch
  11. tutor local start -d
  12. Check Status:
    tutor local status
  13. pip install -e edx-platform/django-config-models/
  14. tutor local restart lms
  15. tutor dev restart

LMS and CMS Websites are up, system is running. How can I check if django-config-models is loaded and working correctly?
I found that an entry should appear in the admin panel of LMS/CMS, but I found no.

Please give me an advise which steps I have to go.
Big thx in advance.

Marco