search

Foxhind / MapCraft

Massively mapping management tool
Other
27 stars 15 forks source link

Allow logged in users to update a slice *so long as there is no owner* #72

Open CloCkWeRX opened 11 years ago

CloCkWeRX commented 11 years ago

As a logged in user, often I'm working alone on my own cakes. Sometimes I'll forget to claim a slice, and try to update it, which fails - asking me to take ownership.

Instead of failing and hassling me, I'd suggest allowing the edit - so long as no one else owns the slice.

DaCor1 commented 11 years ago

What is the point of ownership of the slices then?

The whole point of owning slices is for collaborative working.

Possibly an on/off switch for "Only owned slices can be edited"

CloCkWeRX commented 11 years ago

It's very frustrating if you need to update a number of slices to a point, then release them.

If the user interface prevented you from editing a slice until you took ownership - by disabling the edit controls/siders/etc, that'd be fine - but it doesn't. Instead, you edit a slice and interact with it, only to have your edit fail with an error: "You don't own this".

If no one else owns the slice, it's frustrating - you would expect the application to either automatically grant you ownership or not care about who owns it. I chose the latter approach.

Apart from that, Slice ownership still behaves as it currently does, so you can't upset other people by accident and have to vote or use admin mode to transfer it - that still offers the main value (Hey, Joe Smith is working on X!).