There's a big "Fork" button on top here: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/
That said, please coordinate with krita devs to make sure your work is ever going to reach users. Best, Aleix On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 9:10 AM Bourumir Wyngs <bourumir.wy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, KDE team, > > I would like to create the independent fork of Krita that would allow to use > all modern features of C++, up till that is supported by the latest GCC > release, 12.1 at the time of writing. > > The current Krita development rules are capped by C++11 that is now the ten > years old standard. Even that is limited by the lengthy list of restrictions. > The rules also require using deprecated features of the Qt framework like > Q_FOREACH. I understand the care of the community not to spoil anything and > to preserve the beauty of the existing code. This means, radical changes > should be done in a form. > > I tried to setup the project on KDE myself > (https://invent.kde.org/bourumir/kreed) but for some reason was not able to > push Krita code (about 1 Gb) into repository - hangs at the end of the push. > It may have something to do with quotas or things the like. It may be that I > need more assistance from your side to setup the project. I decided to > contact you first before starting the work on GitHub or independent server > instead. > > I, the project initiator, am currently 54 year old. I am robotic engineer > with very long programming experience, including significant industrial > experience with C++. In the past I made notable contribution to GNU Classpath > project, providing them a fully functional and interoperable implementation > of CORBA. It is obviously sad there are no other contributors so far but I > expect some people to come. I also made several contributions for Krita so > have some understanding about code base and architecture of this project. My > real name is Audrius Meskauskas. > > >
