variation traffic allocation paused by default

[kutnickclose]

expected: variation traffic evenly allocated by default
actual: variation traffic paused by default.

I launched a test that I had used optcli to push up the variations. Didn't realize the traffic was paused for the variation I had pushed up to optimizely until after starting test.

[nselvidge]

Optimizely has stated that this is a known issue with their API. Their is_paused field on the variatons does not seem to work. I just went through and tried pushing some variations with that set and nothing is happening for me. I was able to set the weight field successfully, but that doesn't update the weight of any currently existing fields and led to the total weight of all variations being over 100%.

For version 1.0 we're planning on adding a unified optcli push command that will allow us to overwrite the default variation that is created with the experiment, and we could then be smarter about setting the weight field when we push the variations, but beyond that I think this will have to wait until optimizely fixes it.

[nselvidge]

Tentatively adding this to the 1.0.0 roadmap.