[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24551: Post locking prevents collaboration

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#24551: Post locking prevents collaboration
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 Reporter:  johnbillion   |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  high          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 Occasionally I'll discuss the content of a post with a colleague by
 opening the editing screen for that post at the same time as my colleague.
 ''It may be that neither of us are actively editing it'', but we are
 discussing the content via VOiP or IM or whatever and both looking at it
 on the editing screen.

 The new post editing lock prevents two people from having the editing
 screen for the same post open at the same time.

 [[Image(http://i.imgur.com/PeZ60wd.png)]]

 The above modal provides no option for dismissing the modal and viewing
 the editing screen. Preferably there would be a read-only mode of the
 editing screen, which disabled the buttons in the publish metabox.

 I think this is quite important behaviour. Due to the nature of testing
 (ie. mostly solitary) it'll be unlikely that people have noticed the new
 behaviour until people start using it in production environments.

 Thoughts?

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