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color: rgb(107, 116, 140);"><p>As an aside, I think splitting up kdepim into so many repositories was a huge mistake. Listening to David Faure at the onboarding sprint only confirmed that opinion. Having to work on half a dozen repos to add a single feature to kmail sounds like hell to me. I think it would be a mistake for Calligra, too, but don't pay attention to me :-)</p></div>
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<p>I sometimes find myself feeling this way about Frameworks too. A recent experience at a hackathon where I helped 8 students set up complete development environments from scratch reinforced this viewpoint. Not that I'm seriously recommending re-merging the frameworks, but I would like to challenge the notion that splitting a monolithic codebase across multiple repos is a boon to onboarding; I don't think it is. It may have other benefits, but I don't think onboarding is one of them.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>TASK DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T12815">https://phabricator.kde.org/T12815</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>ngraham<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>rempt, anthonyfieroni, dcaliste, boemann, pino, rjvbb, ngraham, ognarb, Calligra-Devel-list, Calligra: 3.0, leinir, davidllewellynjones, cochise, vandenoever<br /></div>