Re: Removal of Content Lock module from Drupal

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 8:47 PM Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2019 6:09:15 (CET) Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > Hi Promo and Akademy Teams,
> >
> > In the past few days the Drupal developers who maintain the Content
> > Lock module for Drupal decided that they would cease supporting their
> > module on the 7.x series of Drupal.
> >
> > Unfortunately this means we're no longer able to continue using this
> > module, as we won't receive security updates and other critical fixes
> > to the code.
> >
> > I've therefore gone ahead now and removed the module from both the Dot
> > and Akademy sites. We will likely need to look into upgrading both of
> > them to Drupal 8.x in the coming year, as this (modules ceasing
> > support for 7.x) is something which is likely to become more
> > commonplace as Drupal 9 approaches.
> >
> > Apologies for the inconvenience.
>
> What does the Lock module do, Ben? Lock an article when someone is working on
> it?

That is correct - it is designed to prevent two people editing the
same content at once.

>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
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Regards,
Ben