[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Make our new GWT WYSIWYG editor a top level standalone project

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