Concurrent editing of widgets

[josephscott]

When two admin users edit widgets at the same time which ever one saves last wins. I think we'd need something like the post edit lock to be able warn users when someone else is already editing widgets.

[jane]

You had me at "the same time." Agreed.

[scribu]

+1

[wonderboymusic]

the gift of 3.2-early keeps on giving, and I think this is a great fit for the editing / locking / autosave vibes of this release.

I attached a first run at this. I had to write some JS to make the lock messages stay in tune with the sortable / draggable widget block things, but this overall widget-locking concept wasn't wildly complicated to implement

Feedbacks?

[nacin]

This is cool. Obviously too late for 3.6 now, but would be great for 3.7. Needs to be re-coded to leverage the heartbeat and probably an abstraction of some of the new locking code.

[wonderboymusic]

these are all marked 3.7-early

[wonderboymusic]

No one has touched this since my initial patch

[westonruter]

I'm starting to look at this in relation to concurrent editing in the Customizer: #31436

[westonruter]

For the issue of conflicting auto-incremented widget IDs across user sessions, I've opened #32183.

[talldanwp]

There's a proposal to replace the widget screen as part of phase 2 of Gutenberg—GB13204. I've mentioned this issue there.

Also noting that #31436 will cover handling this for the customizer.

As such, I'll close this issue as 'reported upstream'.