Hi devs,

This is not a priority (we need to finish our first stable release of  
the WYSIWYG editor first) but I wanted to propose 2 things and start a  
discussion on it:

* That we make our new GWT WYSIWYG editor a top level project (i.e.  
with a separate jira, separate wiki like http://wysiwyg.xwiki.org with  
a better name, etc)
* Make it usable by someone who is not using XWiki

The rationale is:
* If we want our editor to become strong and compete with the likes of  
FCKEditor/TinyMCE we need to open it up to others and for that we need  
to:
- advertise it (hence the http://wysiwyg.xwiki.org that would lists  
all features same as http://www.fckeditor.net/)
- make it be usable easily and thus without dragging xwiki dependencies

Other options:
1) Don't do anything. Cons: we won't get enough help and it'll be hard  
to compete with other editors. They'll have more features/less bugs  
and we'll have a hard time keeping up. In addition it's possible  
someone else creates a new GWT WYSIWYG editor and it would be better  
if we could all join force on that and using what we have started
2) Externalize it on some forge other than the xwiki forge. This is  
nice from a marketing point of view (i.e. easier to show it as a pure  
wysiwyg editor) but it has some drawbacks:
- further from the xwiki community and thus harder for us to maintain  
it there
- doesn't strengthen our xwiki project

In addition, what we need to evaluate is how do we make it independent  
of xwiki and how long would that take. This is probably more a  
question for Marius. Marius this is not urgent compared to the 1.7.1  
release. Whenever you have time.

Thanks
-Vincent

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