[Trac] Trac Wiki - Multiple Users

[Noah Slater]

Fantastic idea. I love it.

On Apr 1, 2005 9:33 PM, Kevin T. Broderick <kbroderick at boltonvalley.com> wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Matthew Good wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 16:45 +0200, Andreas Braumann wrote:
> >> Andreas Braumann wrote:
> >>> Emmanuel Blot wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Actually, a message on top of the edit window stating "User blah is
> >>> editing the page right now" would be enough, then the user can
> >>> decide to
> >>> call him/postpone his edit/whatever.
> >>
> >> Replying to myself as there was no response yet on this idea. What do
> >> you think about it? Just providing informational means that somebody
> >> is
> >> right now editing the file.
> >>
> >
> > Well, there's still no good way to determine when the user stops
> > editing
> > the page, unless they save it.  If the simply navigate away from the
> > page the server won't know.  Even if there is some JavaScript to keep
> > the server notified while a user is on the edit page, the user can
> > still
> > leave the browser open to that page indefinitely.  I think that a
> > merging solution would be the best, but implementing that probably
> > won't
> > be a quick fix.
> >
> 
> Well, what about adding a line just below the Wiki text and above the
> buttons that reads "/Name/ started editing this page at /datetime/ but
> has not saved it yet and may still be working on it"?  In many
> contexts, as another poster suggested, it's possible to contact the
> person and ask if he/she is going to save a changed page or not; if
> that's not an option, the timestamp should allow a reasonable guess as
> to whether or not the other person is still working on the page.  This
> would definitely not be as useful as merging functionality, but it
> might be a worthwhile workaround until that functionality is available.
> 
> Kevin Broderick, Bolton Valley IT Department
> kbroderick at boltonvalley.com / 802.434.6807 (V) / 802.329.6807 (F)
> 
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