Re: [STUMP] Contrib

[Deepak Tripathi]

I feel that main branch should have only source for StumpWM rest either
will go to another branch (say addons) where all addons goes.

Also I support nice wiki pages for document/addon.As of now StumpWM lakes nice
newbie documentation. 

> Hi list,
>
> I'm starting to wonder what the point of the contrib dir in stumpwm
> actually is.  What is the advantage to having this stuff bundled
> alongside stumpwm?
>
> There are some possible perceived benefits that don't stand up to
> scrutiny:
>
>  * Stuff in contrib is kept in sync with the main progam.  Blatantly
>    untrue: nobody tests everything in contrib when making changes to
>    stumpwm.
>
>  * Being in the main repo makes users aware of the contrib software's
>    existence.  Debatable: this stuff is not mentioned in the stumpwm
>    manual so I suspect most users find out about stuff that might be
>    useful to them on IRC or the web.
>
> What if instead we had a database of stumpwm add-ons that were hosted
> elsewhere?  This could be something as simple as a wiki page or a
> full-blown system with reviews, comments etc if anybody cared to make
> it.
>
> The authors of the add-ons could maintain their software in their own
> repos (including non-git repos if they have some strange aversion to
> git), and users could keep it up to date from there.  The packages
> could use asdf to make it convenient to load them from stumpwmrc.
>
> There's some stuff that should probably remain in the main repo:
> stumpish and stumpwm-mode, stuff that is useful to distributors, utils
> for use on the stumpwm source, and example RCs.  But anything that is
> strictly an add-on could be hosted elsewhere.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ben
>
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