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Background

I have more trouble viewing, previewing, and saving TWiki pages than I'd like. Some of those troubles are probably partially due to my dial-up connection and partially due to Sourceforge's intermittent problems with web serving.

In addition, even when such problems don't occur, each of those operations (view, preview, save) takes longer than is helpful to my continuity of thought (typically 8 to 20 seconds each, on good days).

One thought I have is to make the RCS funtionality more accessible to selected users (the more active contributors). By that I mean:

• When I want to revise a page let me (within the TWiki UI) "check it out" until I "check it back in" (instead of picking an arbitrary timeout period like the current one hour). Regular (i.e., un-"selected" users) might still use the standard mechanism (one hour timeout).
• Give me an interface that lets me do things like:
  • "Post" requests for view, checkout, preview, and save — those requests are displayed on a local list, I post the request once, and something (TWiki, my browser, some other program) tries to fulfill those requests at intervals until they are successful. When any one of them becomes successful, I get an (optional) pop up notification.

Hmm, I feel like I left out some things I had been thinking about, or maybe I just said them fairly concisely.

-- RandyKramer - 16 May 2003

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