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On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:10:06PM -0500, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:14:52PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:58:17AM +0200, Adam Raizen wrote:
> > > > > Btw, I assume it would not be a problem to click on edit for a
> > > > > page, disconnect from the internet, translate some, and then
> > > > > reconnect and submit it (some of us have dialup accounts, and
> > > > > have to pay for local calls).
> > > >
> > > > And that is *exactly* why I split it into paragraphs:
> > > >
> > > > While you are gone the page is locked.  People can break the
> > > > lock, but then things get messy.  I didn't want whole chapters
> > > > to be locked at once long term.
> > > >
> > > > It expires after one hour, but still.   And this way I can
> > > > increase that time limit.
> > > 
> > > That might solve your locking problem, but it exacerbates the
> > > dialup problem. With the way it is now, I would have to dialup my
> > > ISP, retrieve the paragraph, disconnect, translate it, dialup
> > > again, submit and get the next paragraph, disconnect, etc. It
> > > strongly discourages doing much more than a paragraph at a time.
> > 
> > OK.
> > 
> > So, we have what appears to be an insurmountable conflict:
> > 
> > I am not OK with having an entire chapter of Alice locked while you
> > are doing your offline editing.
> > 
> > You are not OK with dealing with it being broken up into paragraphs
> > (what's stopping you from editing more than one paragraph at a time,
> > anyways?).
> > 
> > I see no obvious solution.  Do you have one?
> 
> How about making the RCS database public for people who prefer to edit
> offline/not in a webbrowser/etc?

Oh, yeah, *that* would fix the locking problem...

?!

> For extra credit you could forward port the twiki code to use CVS
> instead.

Heh.

You're welcome to write the code; I don't have time.

-Robin

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