Contributing to the project

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Hi Fabio!

Sure! You are very welcome! What is your main area of interest? I.e., do you want to work on gui, on image algorithms or something else? There's plenty of fun stuff to do in Krita. Look at bugs.kde.org and look for Krita to find a long list of feature requests (and bugs, but you say your task is to work on a feature).

There are also some bigger features we want to work on for Krita 2.5:

* HDR painting: painting in 32 and 16 bit channel/floating point. The basics are there, but there is plenty to do: see meta bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292678. This is important for Blender's project mango as well!

* Smooth strokes. Right now, we have stroke smoothing, but for inking of comics it needs to be reimplemented: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281267

* Action recorder: we need to investigate the current recording system in Krita and then work out something that makes it feasible to record every user action in Krita

* Painting assistants: we've got line, ellipse and perspective assistants and now it's time to have something even more advanced, maybe even a possibility to import blender meshes and use those as assistants.

There are more feature ideas on: http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/Ideas#Calligra_Krita -- that this is our list of ideas for students who want to participate in the Google Summer of Code doesn't mean others cannot start working on those things.

Apart from this mailing list, the other main project communication channel is irc: #krita on irc.freenode.org. For users. it's http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=136.

The first thing to do is build krita. Please check http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building/Building_Calligra for info on how to build krita. If you have trouble, join us on #krita so we can help you!
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Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl