Re: [STUMP] Contrib

[Deepak Tripathi]

Same note we have available like conkeror.org , its much more
informative.

> Tycho, 
>
>> 1) we put the default contrib directory in the default path, so that
>>    people can optionally load modules as they see fit. It won't break
>>    things, and I suppose we just need to make sure that user specified
>>    paths take precedence.
> That's sound good :)
>>
>> 2) We have some sort of wiki or stumpwm-forge and don't distribute any
>>    modules with the core WM. This is a la emacs-wiki, and I suspect that
>>    most of the people who are likely to be comfortable with stump are
>>    likely to be comfortable with emacswiki so that shouldn't be to bad.
>>
> I was reading old archive stumpwm devel news and i found that there is
> one already in place[0] but i am not sure that its properly maintained
> or not and it also does not fulfill the wiki purpose.
>> 3) We just integrate and accept patches and modules wildly with only
>>    cursory review. The reason to be more careful about commit access and
>>    including new code is to avoid regressions, malicious content, and
>>    what not. But it seems that these are infrastrcture/logistical
>>    problems: testing, CI, conversations. I'm not much of a lisper, but
>>    the logistics stuff I can help with. If that's what people (and the
>>    current maintainers) want.
>>
>>> Also I support nice wiki pages for document/addon.As of now StumpWM
>>> lakes nice newbie documentation.
>>
>> Oh documentation. I'm a technical writer by trade and would be willing
>> to help out with documentation and have thought about what various
>> tutorials would look like, but it's been (so far) pretty far down on my
>> list. Hrm. Is there anyone else on the list who has some time they want
>> to put towards documentation? I'm game, but I don't think I have the
>> time to do this alone.
>>
> +1
> What we require that we have one wiki i.e (wiki.stumpwm.org) where
> users can login keep there .stumpwmrc files, patches etc. One single
> source for all stumpwm related issues, hacks, plugins etc.
>
> [0] http://stumpwm.svkt.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

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