Added new variables from configuration repo

Add stable_bucketer helper tool

* explicitly setting strings to unicode

Minor changes to CODEOWNERS file.

move the anonymous check earlier so that it cannot error out when it …

Pre-select the course overview during dashboard loading

DescriptorWithMixins are dynamically created and do not have a hash
class method. Those classes had hash values in python2 but do not
have a default hash in python3. Thus those class objects can not be
used as dict keys. Used location of section/unit instead of real object
for cache dict. Location object is hashable.

Add graded and scored markers to the course outline

Mark course outline with graded and scored status in the DOM so that we can run optimizely code on them

Python Requirements Update

BOM-932

Fixing byte issues.

Move cms defaults from configuration repo

Move lms defaults from configration repo

Added the util to handle bytes input to json.loads function - BOM-911

[REV-733] check if discount expired

REV-943

* added dynamic and course_upgrade_deadline to user-metadata 

Python Requirements Update

-version bump recommender-xblock

awais786/bom 415 ora2

changes made to fix jenkins/quality errors

changes made as suggested

added the docstring to fix quality issue

made a few changes to fix some tests

replaced json.loads with a util to handle bytes

changes made to fix jenkins/quality errors

changes made as suggested

added the docstring to fix quality issue

made a few changes to fix some tests

made changes as suggested

made changes as suggested

updated the requirements with make upgrade