Proposal: Evaluate all 5.x and 6.x WYSIWYG, WYSIWYM etc. editors

1. I count betwen 10-15 so this ought to be manageable.
2. Yep - and this is covered in ease of installation etc. anyway
3. Definitely yes. I'd thought of that but wasn't sure where they should go.

Here's some minor edits:

Task title
Evaluate all 5.x WYSIWG, WYSIWM, rich text etc. editors

Task description
Drupal.org has over 100 modules in the "filters and editors" category. Around a dozen of these are editors which modify textareas for easy formatting of posts.

Drupal core does not currently have an editor, and this is often a feature request in the forums. Dries has mentioned that an editor in core would be considered for Drupal 7, but in general the community has been unable to find one which is up to scratch, and many users end up trying several different editors before they find one which works for their site.

You should take the following steps:

Find all editors from http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/63

Install each editor in a Drupal 5 installation and evaluate it for the following points:

1. Does it have an offical 5.x release?
2. Does it pass coder.module testing?
3. Did you find any bugs?
4. Does it generate valid XHTML

If you find any issues, submit a bug report to the module's issue queue if one does not already exist.

You should also make notes (and ratings if appropriate) for the following criteria:
Ease of installation, settings etc.. Does it require third-party libraries? Does it depend on another drupal module?
Editor usability.
Any functionality you think the module is missing.

These should be presented in a table/chart in a post on the wysiwyg group.

In addition, pick three modules you particularly liked, and write up a longer description of their features, why you liked them, and include screenshots of the editing interface - this should be a separate post in the wysiwyg group.

Once your findings have been reviewed, you should also add them as a Handbook page to complete the task.

http://groups.drupal.org/wysiwyg
http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/63
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7048 (Themes review).

Made those changes. I'm happy to help with reviews for this dependent on timing, but I've only ever used quicktags (and tinymce a long time ago which I hated), so I'm not sure if that's useful or not for this.

Also if this goes well, I'm sure there's potential variations for other groups of modules (voting, ecommerce, taxonomy, menus etc.)

Anyway here it is, I won't have time to submit as an actual task until a bit later, but should be ready with a bit of luck:

Task title
Evaluate all 5.x WYSIWG, WYSIWM, rich text etc. editors

Task description
Drupal.org has over 100 modules in the "filters and editors" category. Around a dozen of these are editors which modify textareas for easy formatting of posts.

Drupal core does not currently have an editor, and this is often a feature request in the forums, however there's a possibility that one would be considered for core in Drupal 7. In general the community has been unable to find one which is up to scratch, and many users end up trying several different editors before they find one which works for their site.

You should take the following steps for this task:

Find all editors from http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/63

Install each editor in a Drupal 5 installation* and evaluate it for the following points:

1. Does it have an offical 5.x release?
2. Does it pass coder.module testing?
3. Did you find any bugs?
4. Does it generate valid XHTML

If you find any issues, submit a bug report to the module's issue queue if one does not already exist.

You should also make notes (and ratings if appropriate) for the following criteria:
Ease of installation, settings etc.. Does it require third-party libraries? Does it depend on another drupal module?
Editor usability.
Any functionality you think the module is missing.

These should be presented in a table/chart in a post on the wysiwyg group.

In addition, pick three modules you particularly liked, and write up a longer description of their features, why you liked them, and include screenshots of the editing interface - this should be a separate post in the wysiwyg group.

Once your findings have been reviewed, you should also add them as a Handbook page to complete the task.

Resources
http://groups.drupal.org/wysiwyg
http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/63
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7048 (Themes review).
http://drupal.org/project/coder

* You will need to enable and disable each module as you evaluate them to avoid conflicts.

Done! hope it's alright.