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[François Marier <francois@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That's indeed a very annoying behaviour.

However, the solution sounds a bit complicated (and error prone). We'd
need to have a new timeout (how long somehow has to edit a post) and
keep track of when editing was started.

A few scenarios to consider:

- user clicks edit and submits the edited post 3 hours later
- user clicks edit and never submits the form
- user clicks edit and submits the edited post just after the "editing duration timeout"

A simpler approach to the problem described by Ruslan would be to add a
message like this in bold above the edit box when editing a comment:

"You have 25 minutes to edit this message. Make sure you submit this
post before 11:35pm (server time) or the original one will be emailed
out instead."

We could even have a Javascript countdown...

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/731990

Title:
  Forum post editing timeout issue

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  New

Bug description:
  We have postdelay forum config parameter that defines for how long it
  is allowed to edit the post after it has been submitted. Say it is set
  to 30 mins. When user decides to edit the post just before timeout,
  s/he will be allowed to do so, but submission might not be possible
  due to the timeout (Access denied error).

  What I suggest is to make possible to submit the post even if time is
  out (but editing was initiated before timeout).