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 > > _______________________________________________ > Stumpwm-devel mailing list > Stumpwm-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/stumpwm-devel -- ,---- | Life's Too Short, Write Fast Code, Use emacs :) | Deepak Tripathi(gnumonk) | irc: irc.debian.org | nick: deepak, gnumonk | irc: irc.freenode.com | nick: gnumonk | web: http://www.gnumonk.com `---- _______________________________________________ Stumpwm-devel mailing list Stumpwm-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/stumpwm-devel
