build_version.json - the simple version, for edx release devstack

build_version.json

{
    GIT_ACCT: "yarko",
    THEME_ACCT: "Stanford-Online",
    OPEN_EDX: "edx",
    edx_platform_repo: "https://{{ COMMON_GIT_MIRROR }}/{{ GIT_ACCT }}/edx-platform.git",
    edx_platform_version: "yarko/fix-rake-env-assets",
    edxapp_use_custom_theme: false,
    edxapp_theme_source_repo: 'https://{{ COMMON_GIT_MIRROR }}/{{ THEME_ACCT }}/edx-theme.git',
    edxapp_theme_version: 'master',
    edxapp_theme_name: "stanford"
}

See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/edx-code/l07IuX9GckI/VUZLtB2ObowJ

You might also like this preliminary overview of using ansible extra_vars with edx.

It's an early draft, and will show up in a pull request eventually.

Note that json has no concept of comments - you can't comment it, except to produce unused elements to hold strings which are really only comments.

THE ALL CAPS items: we show 3 people's github accounts here: mine (GIT_ACCT), Stanford's, and Open edX. I didn't list all the repos which by default are OPEN_EDX, but if I wanted to nail a specific item (such as the snapshot by end-of-day 2014-01-20 - then I might want to include the repo, for completeness. It also makes it easier to change it when you decide you will develop on it, and therefore fork it.

You can find the default definitions of all these (and more) in the playbooks area of the edx/configuration repository on github.

This gist is obsoleted - see the yaml equivalent instead (commented).