rollout

Rollout is a django application that allows one to easily release new features to a subset of users.

Dependencies

rollout requires django, redis-py and proclaim to work.

Usage

Basically one would use this app to split their Django project up into features that you can roll out to individuals, groups or a percentage of users. Many sites implement a similar strategy to catch bugs or see how new features are received.

Option 1:

{% rollout "newfeature" %}
 ... handy new feature of your site ...
{% endrollout %}

Option 2:

{% rollout "newfeature" "path/to/template.html" %}

From the command line, add a percentage of users to 'newfeature':

$ python manage.py rollout newfeature --percentage=20 --activate

Add a group to 'secretfeature':

$ python manage.py rollout "secretfeature" --group=Admins --activate

You can always just use the rollout in your views.py or models.py to target specific users with new features.

from rollout import rollout
rollout.activate_percentage("nextfeature", 20)
rollout.deactivate_user("nextfeature", request.user)