Consider adding a maintenance mode package

[bluesurfer]

It would be nice to have a package or something that puts the website in maintenance mode. Some good choices that I found are:

1. https://github.com/fabiocaccamo/django-maintenance-mode (at application level)
2. https://github.com/alsoicode/django-maintenancemode-2 (at database level)

[Afrowave]

Very good suggestion @bluesurfer. I like the second one more.

• It is much 'DRYer' with less code.
• It is 'Heroku' friendly.
• Changing a 'checkbox' is easier in production than having to get onto the terminal as the super user.
• You can hand this off to the client's DevOps team easily.

Of course it is also quite straight forward to add it to your project in the requirements folder.

[pydanny]

Once https://github.com/alsoicode/django-maintenancemode-2 supports Django 1.11, I'll make this happen.

[bluesurfer]

@pydanny

Fresh news: django-maintenancemode-2 now supports Django 1.11 :)

[webyneter]

I suggest that this is to be implemented as an optional feature, via use_maintenancemode for instance.

[browniebroke]

What are the use cases when one need to put the website in maintenance mode?

The main (only) one I can think of is when I need to perform a database upgrade. While having this flag accessible from the admin is super flexible, it's not super useful in this case: if you need to take your database down, the flag isn't accessible.

[browniebroke]

Nice suggestion but I don't think it's worth doing. There hasn't been a lot in interest which is telling me that it's not a very common use case. I don't really want to add an option either, we already have too many of them 😄