Discourage the use of a Provider<T> where T is a type that is lazy

[adammurdoch]

Using a provider of a lazy type is generally pointless, and the lazy type can be used directly instead. Find ways to avoid the following:

• Provider<FileCollection> (or any subtype such as FileTree)
• Provider<Provider<?>> (or any subtype of Provider such as Property)
• Provider<DomainObjectCollection<?>> (or any subtype such as TaskCollection).

This might include validation, documentation, clearer APIs (for example changing these types to extend Provider).

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[eskatos]

We still want to do this stale bot

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