On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >
big +1, as Vincent said if we want it to be a strong WYSIWYG editor, we need people to use it and contribute. And we would get a lot more people and especially developers if make it standalone. For the details I would be in favor of really externalize it as I think it will get more people if it's clear it's a generic WYSIWYG editor but yes it would not be seen as a XWiki strength anymore. -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
