[xwiki-devs] [Discussion] Annotations improvements (wider annotations target) and roadmap update

Hi devs, following a discussion with Fabio about the second desired feature for the annotations, namely the ability to add annotations on any document, no matter how its content is generated, we came up with the solution described at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/AnnotationFeature#HSolution1stor… , the main idea being that annotations would be defined by their selected text and a context (as opposed to offsets) and would be identified to be rendered in a document on a serialization of the transformed XDOM of the document, this way taking into account any macro rendering, document inclusion, etc. WDYT about this solution? Also, because the implementation of this, though relatively localized, comes together with refactor and cleanup of the annotations module (update everything so that annotations don't store and use offsets anymore, remove classes & functions which are not needed in this simplified process), I propose to include this improvement in version 1.0 of the annotations module (so that we don't cleanup and release what we know for sure we'll delete) and push the 1.0 version further to mid to end December. here's my +1 for this, WDYT? Happy coding, Anca