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

+1

>
> 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

2) would be great and I guess it would be a natural long-term
evolution if the wysiwyg.xwiki.org project succeed in gathering a
strong community.

JV.
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