Changes to our Git infrastructure

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Just to make sure -- I didn't write any of this, this is stuff that 
committed users of Krita were coming up with some time ago when the 
question arose of "why is krita not on github" (which got answered 
satisfactorily, but then sequed in what people are missing).

On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
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>> True, but don't forget about the other side of the story:
>> - potential contributors will have to learn more stuff, before they
>>  can even _start_ contributing, which may be a real turn-off in some
>>  cases.
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>> Your project's situation may be very different from mine. Personally,
>> I'm much more worried about keeping the entry barrier as low as
>> possible, than about reducing the amount of effort that I have to put
>> into supporting and educating contributors.
>> 
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> Getting first-timers and non-coders to even create a patch and post it to a 
> bug is often already a challenge. But I managed to make someone do a proper 
> and succesful git bisect!
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> Anyway, and coincidentally, Here's something artists and other interested 
> people wrote up for Krita, some time ago:
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> https://notes.kde.org/p/YWlSAP98tl
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> (Needs a KDE identity to access...)
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> Boudewijn
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