30 Dec
2008
30 Dec
'08
6:58 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
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
> >
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>
> 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.
>
*BIG* +1!
- Asiri