Rationale:

It's been a very long time we're bothered by our current samples module; it was rarely up-to-date, and it never really fulfilled both of the goals it tried to achieve: providing usable examples of Magnolia usage AND providing a showcase for template developers.

Instead, we will now have a sample module geared towards template/module developers, which will certainly not show best-of-breed design and layout, but will attempt to encompass and demonstrate all features modules and templates can use.

Details / concept at:
http://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/display/DEV/Dev+Samples+Module

Existing templates at:
http://svn.magnolia-cms.com/svn/community/bundle/trunk/magnolia-integration-tests/magnolia-integration-tests-module/

This module will also be used to execute a bunch of integration tests - for instance for rendering validation.