T12815: Create Calligra Framework by separating out applications and libraries

[Nathaniel Graham]

ngraham added a comment.


  In T12815#223428 <https://phabricator.kde.org/T12815#223428>, @rempt wrote:
  
  > 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 :-)
  
  
  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.

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/T12815

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