[xwiki-devs] [PROPOSAL] Fork the Keypress JS library

Hi devs, In October / November of last year, we integrated the Keypress JS library as a replacement of OpenJS Keyboard in order to better handle keyboard shortcuts in the platform and its extensions and add new shortcut types (such as "sequence" shortcuts) useful for [1]. Moving to this library has also brought some bugs, such as XWIKI-15024 [2]. Currently, that bug can be fixed upstream by the library maintainer, that unfortunately isn't very active on the project. Choosing a library that isn't properly maintained might have been a problem that we didn't really thought of when switching to Keypress JS. In order not to be stuck by waiting for upstream releases, I propose that we fork the library, and fix the problem raised by XWIKI-15024 ourselves by reviewing and integrating a patch proposed upstream, but not yet merged [3]. Of course this solution has pros and cons, the main downside being that we will need to maintain our fork. Also note that, if we fork the project, we will have to choose either to keep the source code in its original form (which is CoffeeScript [4]) or to translate the code into JavaScript, which is more maintainable for us, but that will probably not allow us to integrate other patches from the official project branch. WDYT ? Thanks, Clément [1] http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/UserGuide/Features/Keyboa… [2] https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15024 [3] https://github.com/dmauro/Keypress/pull/137 [4] http://coffeescript.org/