Kickstarter urls:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source-digital-painting-accelerate-deve?ref=user_menu
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-free-paint-app-lets-make-it-faster-than-phot?ref=user_menu
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-2016-lets-make-text-and-vector-art-awesome?ref=user_menu

Kickstarter message:

Hi!

The Krita Community is doing another fund raiser. Last year we didn't manage one -- <a href="https://krita.org/en/item/krita-foundation-in-trouble/">we were too busy surviving!</a> -- and this year we're trying to do something different from Kickstarter.

The Kickstarter campaign you backed were all about features, and we've delivered them! But after three, four years of adding feature after feature at break-neck speed, we want to do some in-depth fixing, polishing, stabilizing. Take a good hard look at stuff that remains undone, or under-done.

Our goal, unattainable of course, but we're nothing if not fool-hardy, is ZERO BUGS.

So, please join us in the 2018 Krita Squash the Bugs campaign!

https://www.krita.org

@rempt - love the text for the kickstarter backers

Press release text, to be sent out tomorrow (thursday 13th):

Krita Project Launches 2018 Fundraiser: Squash the Bugs

Thursday, September 13th, 2018

The award-winning free and open source digital painting application Krita will launch its 2018 fundraiser on Saturday September 15th. Krita is a widely used cross-platform application. Over a million people a year download Krita!

This year, the theme will be "Squash the Bugs". After three successful Kickstarter campaigns that funded many new features, the developers want to work on making Krita even more polished, even more stable and even more fun to use!

The campaign homepage will be https://www.krita.org.

The Krita project has supported development through donations and fundraiser campaigns since 2007, making it one of the most successful open source graphics applications.

Boudewijn Rempt

About Krita:

Krita is a KDE project (http://www.kde.org). The Krita Project is supported by the Krita Foundation (http://www.krita.org). Press information about Krita is available here: https://krita.org/about/press/.
Krita is free software and available for Windows and Linux and macOS.

krita.org news section announcement:

It’s time for a new Krita fundraiser! Our goal this year is to make it possible for the team to focus on one thing only: stability. Our previous fundraisers were all about features: adding new features, extending existing features. Thanks to your help, Krita has grown at breakneck speed!

Squash the bugs!

This year, we want to take a step back, look at we’ve achieved, and take stock of what got broken, what didn’t quite make the grade and what got forgotten. In short, we want to fix bugs, make Krita more stable and bring more polish and shine to all those features you all have made possible!

We're not using Kickstarter this year. Already in 2016, Kickstarter felt like a tired formula. We're also not going for a fixed amount of funding this year: every 4000 euros funds one month of work, and we'll spend that time on fixing bugs, improving features and adding polish.

Polish Krita!

As an experiment, Dmitry has just spent about a month on area of Krita: selections. And now there are only a few issues left with selection handling: the whole area has been enormously improved. And now we want to ask you to make it possible for us to do the same with some other important areas in krita, ranging from papercuts to brush engines, from color management to resource management. We've dug through the bugs database, grouped some things together and arrived at a list of ten areas where we feel we can improve Krita a lot.

The list is order of number of reports, but if you support Krita in this fundraiser, you'll be able to vote for what you think is important! Voting is fun, after all, and we love to hear from you all what you find the most important things.

Practical Stuff

Practically speaking, we've kicked out Kickstarter, which means that from the start, you'll be able to support our fundraiser with credit cards, paypal, bank transfers -- even bitcoin! Everyone who donates from 15 September to 15 October will get a vote.

And everyone who donates 50 euros or more will get a free download of Ramon Miranda's wonder new brush preset bundle, Digital Atelier. Over fifty of the highest-quality painterly brush presets (oils, pastel, water color) and more than that: 2 hours of tutorial video explaining the creation process in detail.

An edited draft version of the Press Release:

Krita Project Launches "Squash All the Bugs!" 2018 Fundraiser

Thursday, September 13th, 2018

Krita, the award-winning digital painting application, launches its 2018 fundraiser on Saturday September 15th. Krita is free and open source and is widely used on Windows, macOS and Linux. Over a million people a year download Krita.

The theme for 2018's campaign is "Squash All the Bugs!". After three successful Kickstarter campaigns that helped fund many new features, developers want to work on making Krita even more polished, stable and fun to use.

The Krita project supports development through donations and fundraiser campaigns and has done so since 2007, making it one of the most successful graphics applications in open source history.

Visit the campaign page https://www.krita.org to find out more.
[OR "Visit the campaign page https://www.krita.org from September 15th onwards to find out more".

Boudewijn Rempt

About Krita:

Krita is the professional painting program from KDE (http://www.kde.org). Krita is free software, full-featured, and is easy and fun to use. Amateur and professional artists from all over the world use Krita everyday. Krita is available for Windows and Linux and macOS and is supported by the Krita Foundation (http://www.krita.org). Press information about Krita is available at https://krita.org/about/press/.

Bug squad instructions:

If you want to help out, it's best to use the most recent build.

• For Windows, you can find it here: https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krita_Nightly_Windows_Build/

Use the zip file version, and unpack it to somewhere, like your desktop.

For Linux, you can always find it here: https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Krita_Nightly_Appimage_Build/

Simply make it executable

For macOS, the build will be here: https://files.kde.org/krita/bugday/XXX

Drag the app bundle to your desktop.

Make sure you make a backup of your settings and resources. On Windows, unless you use Krita from the Windows Store, your settings are in %LOCALAPPDATA%\kritarc, and your resources in %APPDATA%\krita. On Linux, they are in $HOME/.config/kritarc and $HOME/.local/share/krita. On macOS the configuration is in $HOME/Library/Preferences/kritarc and the resources in ~/Library/Application Support/Krita/.

Put these files in a zip archive, or in a safe place. You can then remove them and start krita with a clean configuration, which is the best way to try and triage bugs.

In T9634#159893, @rempt wrote:

Bug squad instructions:

I've added these instructions to the Etherpad for the Bug event this Saturday.