[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Mark the xwiki/1.0 syntax as deprecated

Hi devs, Since a long time ago, the xwiki/1.0 syntax has been deprecated in favor of the new rendering engine and the 2.x syntaxes, but this has never been declared deprecated formally. We should: * mark the syntax as deprecated in the UI (like 2.1 was marked experimental in the syntax choice dropdown) * deprecate classes and methods that deal only with the old syntax * push more for migrating all documents to the 2.1 syntax; the biggest troublemaker is the statistics application Here's my +1. We should also decide on a timeline for the complete removal of the 1.0 syntax. Is that something we want to do? Provided we manage to migrate all the official documents and some major contributed applications during the 4.x cycle, is XWiki 5.0 a good target? We should package the support for xwiki/1.0 as an optional extension installable using the extension manager, so that people can upgrade from older versions. Or we could package just a syntax migrator that can be used for an automatic conversion to a newer syntax, without actually providing rendering support for it. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/