Some of you might think of your own grand new great feature for Krita, and maybe even you know how to code, but getting into Krita codebase is difficult. Or maybe you’re bored and want to help, but don’t have much time. Or maybe you want to switch industry you’re working in and you’re learning programming in spare time.
Krita’s codebase might seem overwhelming, and frankly, it is. But we can always cut the beast into pieces and just take care of a very very little part of it. I was working recently on rating wishes - feature requests reported on bugzilla - to see how many of them are invalid, how many needs more discussion, how many are difficult, how many are not. Below it’s what I rated as “short, easy, ready”. I put a lot of items so you can choose what feels the most interesting to you 
NOTE: If you become interested in one of those items, please do contact one of the developers (or comment here/below), that way (1) we can help you, (2) there won’t be multiple people working on the same thing. Also this list is for people who already know c++ and can read code; otherwise it might be quite difficult.
Very simple
Features
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423170 423170 – JJ: MacOS' color picker pops up instead of Krita's internal color selector (change the color selector on MacOS to be the Krita one, not MacOS OS’s one which is much more limited)[taken by @toast-latte July 2022] -
Wrap-around restricted to just one axis: Would be nice if wrap around mode could be restricted to just X or Y axis -[taken by @freyalupen, July 2022, MR: Draft: Add single-axis settings to Wrap Around Mode (!1524) · Merge requests · Graphics / Krita · GitLab] -
349152 349152 – When transforming a clone layer with transform tool, create a transformation mask automatically When transforming a clone layer with transform tool, create a transformation mask automatically (similarly to how it’s done with File layer or something)[taken by @QChai, October 20]
GUI
Just simple, maybe a bit longer
Tools/features
- 377034 377034 – Save Group Layers Dimensions not Retained Save Group Layers Dimensions not Retained
- 367694 367694 – Support loading palettes saved as a CSS file Support loading palettes saved as a CSS file
- 374726 374726 – The levels filter does not have a channel selector
- 423724 423724 – Open both files when autosave present - Improvement to dialog (this might need some more careful design behind the scenes, to ensure that the user won’t try to save both files into the same location afterwards - maybe the autosave file could have the filename
filename-autosaved.kra(it’s different from the normal autosave files so it would work?) - better to discuss with other users when you take this task). -
399058 399058 – Convert the current layer into a reference image Convert the current layer into a reference image[taken by @TomWoo ]
GUI
- 348922 348922 – Wishbug : Extend the color patch ( previous and current color) while color picking to other tools such as gradient tools Wishbug : Extend the color patch ( previous and current color) while color picking to other tools such as gradient tools
- 409184 409184 – Feature Request: Ability to open image sequence and animated gif directly from file menu. Feature Request: Ability to open image sequence directly from file menu. (Needs to be finished: Ability to import animation directly (!727) · Merge requests · Graphics / Krita · GitLab)
- 406699 406699 – No suitable cursor on HDR dark pictures No suitable cursor on HDR dark pictures (requires some artistic skills
) - Make opening multiple files open in alphabetic order - Open of multiple files is Unordered
Scripting
- 412846 412846 – Expose ways to select/deselect nodes in the Layer docker Expose ways to select/deselect nodes in the Layer docker (longer work)
Bugs
If you don’t look for fun but want to make the biggest impact with your coding, you can try to fix one of the following bugs. They are all meant to be somewhat easy to fix and shouldn’t take much time (although it’s a relative measure…). They might be a little more difficult than wishes though, since you’re not writing a new code, but fixing the old one.
- 457447 457447 – Measure Tool physical distance scaling not updated after document dpi change - needs file reopening
- 422750 422750 – On canvas HUD color picker (square type) or color history swatches are hard to use due to no buffer area on edges
- 428140 428140 – Advanced Color Selector looks ugly in horizontal layout
- 438607 438607 – Fill tool + Color Label filter + Animation is slow (VERY slow) (the Fill Tool part is easy, you can ask me for details)
- All of the crashes: Bug List
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) which might be helpful for you, it has all the scripts so you don’t have to do anything except for downloading correct things and then running scripts. But it’s still more difficult than on Linux.