cms import fails to generate course outline when using development settings

[arbrandes]

Description

Some time in the past year (give or take), it was noticed that a tutor dev do importdemocourse in dev mode (which uses upstream's devstack settings), the imported course does not get a generated outline, resulting in a 500 error when trying to access it in the LMS. The Tutor command uses manage.py cms import behind the scenes.

Steps to reproduce

#. Launch a Tutor instance in dev mode.
#. Run tutor dev do importdemocourse.
#. Try to access the demo course in the LMS. You should get a 500 error.

Workaround

After running the import, it's possible to fix the issue by running:

tutor dev run cms ./manage.py cms update_course_outline course-v1:OpenedX+DemoX+DemoCourse

This workaround was rejected as a fix for Tutor. Ideally, we would find a solution in edx-platform.

[arbrandes]

@ormsbee, @brian-smith-tcril, FYI.