Hi Guillaume,

> On 4 Feb 2019, at 12:50, Guillaume Delhumeau <guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Dear developers,
> 
> Now that we consider notifications as an achieved replacement for both
> Activity Stream and the Watchlist, I propose to stop maintaining them and
> to move them into the "attic" section.

+1

> You need to know that we had a dependency on the Activity Stream API, as
> the only implementation of the Event Stream, on which the Notifications are
> based. So to get rid of this dependency (the code is not using our
> component system and is not well tested), I have written a new
> implementation of the Event Stream that I have called "Event Stream Store".
> It's fully backward compatible with the old implementation, since it is
> using the same Database schema. In practice, I re-used some pieces of
> Activity Stream that I have modified to fit into components. For more
> information, see: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-16052
> 
> So my proposal is this one:
> - use the new store in 11.1

Already in action! +1

> - stop bundle Watchlist and AS in 11.1

+1

> - move Watchlist and AS into "attic" in 11.2

IMO this could be done in 11.1 too since if we stop bundling Watchlist/AS then 
we don’t need to keep the modules in platform.

Thanks
-Vincent

> 
> Thanks you,
> 
> -- 
> Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhum...@xwiki.com)
> Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
> Committer on the XWiki.org project

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