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.
