[Cosmo-dev] Interesting idea to avoid EIM conflicts

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Morgen,

>> In the interim state where we're displaying the item with a conflict, it
>> seems like Arthur's Chandler ought to say the item was changed by
>> Arthur, but has conflicts from Bea.
> 
> Actually, there is a big problem with this: what if Arthur changed the
> title, then Charlie changes the title and syncs, then Bea changes the
> body and syncs, then Arthur syncs.  Arthur sees a conflict on title. 
> But the conflict isn't with Bea, it's with Charlie!  Bea just happened
> to be the last person to update the item.

Yup.  The original goal was to track who changed what attribute.  The UI
for that is a little harder than just a lastModifiedBy field, though, so
it's not on our Preview plate.

For preview, I think it's OK if we're inaccurate about who exactly the
conflict is with.  For now, since Bea made the last change, the conflict
appears to be with her.  I believe Mimi explicitly blessed that
inaccuracy for now (cc:ing Mimi to double check that).

Sincerely,
Jeffrey