added dummy transaction module to ease debugging of code under transaction control

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diff --git a/askbot/utils/dummy_transaction.py b/askbot/utils/dummy_transaction.py
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+"""Dummy transaction module, use instead of :mod:`django.db.transaction`
+when you want to debug code that would normally run under transaction management.
+Usage::
+
+    from askbot.utils import dummy_transaction as transaction
+
+    @transaction.commit_manually
+    def do_something():
+        #your code making changes to the database
+        transaction.commit()
+        return
+"""
+import functools
+
+def commit_manually(func):
+    """fake ``commit_manually`` decorator"""
+    @functools.wraps(func)
+    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+        return func(*args, **kwargs)
+    return wrapper
+
+def commit():
+    """fake transaction commit"""
+    pass