By kevinquillen on

Thought some of you would be interested in reading this.

http://slate.com/id/2233719

Good to see the community come to the defense of Drupal.

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vincent sg commented

Slate Editor wrote that "Drupal doesn't have a convenient way to prevent two people from accidentally editing the same page at the same time."

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vm commented

http://drupal.org/project/checkout

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kevinquillen commented

Doh, forgot to mention that in my comment, but yeah. Theres that.

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read my thoughts

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vincent sg commented

Default
The person who submits first wins the race.
The person who submits second will need to edit and submit again.

Checkout
The person who starts editing wins the race.
The person who attempts to start editing when the first person is editing must wait for his/her turn.

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vm commented

depends on the length of edits. if its a typo correction no big deal. If someone spent a hour editing a document only to push submit and essentially lose that work. They'd be upset.

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ludo1960 commented

.. Joy of record locking!

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rc2020 commented

Yeh, I sent him a lengthy reply, and am going to write an article on my site about it.

I'll post back when it's done.

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vm commented

my breakdown of the slate authors comments = http://drupal.org/node/613892#comment-2199474