Slate Editor Attacks Drupal
stripped your speech - October 28, 2009 - 19:18
Thought some of you would be interested in reading this.
Good to see the community come to the defense of Drupal.
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Let's create a locking mechanism
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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http://drupal.org/project/checkout
Doh, forgot to mention that
Doh, forgot to mention that in my comment, but yeah. Theres that.
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Which is more efficient?
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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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.
The..
.. Joy of record locking!
Yeh, I sent him a lengthy
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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my breakdown of the slate authors comments = http://drupal.org/node/613892#comment-2199474