[mb-users] What happens if I make a second edit while another edit is still open for voting?

[Johannes Dewender]

Okay, this is based on my experience
> Suppose person A changes an existing data item (e.g. a TrackTitle),
> leading to a one-week vote period; and, during that period, person B
> makes a different change to the same data item.
>
> 1. Does person B start their change with the results of person A's
> changes?
No. It starts with the original item, unless it was created with the 
last edit.

> 2. What happens to person B's change if person A's change is approved
> after person B's change is made but before it's approved?
Person B gets a failed prerequisite and Modbot states something 
like "This track was already renamed" or similar.

> 3. What happens to person A's change if person B's change is approved
> before person A's change is approved?
This time person A gets a failed prerequisite.

> 4. Are the answers different if person A and person B are the same
> person? i.e. what happens if you try to make two successive edits to
> the same item?
No difference who is actually doing the edit.

> As I read http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/HowEditingWorks , it doesn't
> address these questions.
True. Right now I don't remember a place where it explains this, it 
might exist or maybe it doesnt.

> (Note also that while it's possible — and maybe better — for a
> contributor to cancel one change before making a second change to the
> same item, this does not actually answer question 4.)
Cancelling is a way of influencing which edit comes through and stop 
edits from failing, if you know it is not going to work.


I hope this helps. If something is incorrect, there will be somebody 
correcting me ;-)

--JonnyJD
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