We have a lot of stuff that needs to behave differently in a development
environment than in production. We initially conditioned all of these on
the DEBUG setting, but a lot of users tend to turn that on when they
encounter problems, and then sometimes forget that they did so.
On the Review Board side, we've moved these things behind a new settings
key, PRODUCTION. This allows people to set DEBUG = True and get more
thorough logging, while not completely breaking their system. This
change brings that same key to Djblets.
