[STUMP] Contrib

[Ben Spencer]

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