Add banner for informate user hours and date of the maintenance about django-maintenance-mode HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi @scwall,
thank you for this suggestion.
Maintenance-mode schedule is already in the 'todo' of this library.

Frankly my idea was to add support to it using a simple setting:

settings.MAINTENANCE_MODE_SCHEDULE = {
    'sun': {'start':'01:00', 'end':'02:00'},
    'mon': None,
    'tue': None,
    'wed': {'start':'01:00', 'end':'02:00'},
    'thu': None,
    'fri': None,
    'sat': None,
}

# or this to schedule maintenance every day:
settings.MAINTENANCE_MODE_SCHEDULE = {
    '*': {'start':'01:00', 'end':'02:00'},
}

Now, looking at your suggestion, I understand the flexibility to manage maintenance schedule using the admin and also the necessity to send an email to users to warn them about the incoming maintenance (which needs a cronjob).

Actually this library doesn't use database at all and I would prefer to keep it tiny and db free, but I also want to implement maintenance schedule in the best and flexible way...

I take some time to think better about it, in the meanwhile any other idea/suggestion will be appreciated.

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Ok I understand, maybe adding an external yarml file for the hours, for don't modify settings file . Personally I will have to use a db, because I use docker (with dj cookie cutter) for the deployment of my projects. If I change the settings I will have to rebuild my image and redeploy it just to publish the time. For the use of a recurring stain: https://pypi.org/project/django-crontab/ is quite light.

example maintenance.yml:

schelude:
  - date: 14/05/2020
    start_time: 12h20
    end_time: 14h30
  - date: 14/05/2021
    start_time: 10h20
    end_time: 19h30

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I close this issue because it is very similar to another one, everything related to maintenance mode schedule will be discussed in #64.

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