[Development] Buddy group to help new contributors

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 11:35:45AM +0000, Edward Welbourne via Development wrote:
>Volker Hilsheimer (8 December 2023 23:55) wrote (inter alia):
>>>> Would it make a huge difference if we didn’t require perl (and IIRC
>>>> we only need it for the init-repository script)?
>
>Our post-commit hook also invokes sanitize-commit, which is a perl
>script.
>
>Of course, it would not be beyond the wit of developers to rewrite both
>into python; [...]
>
this whole "get rid of perl for the sake of windows users" is a 
monumental red herring. because literally everyone already has perl with 
all required modules installed the moment they have cloned qt the way we 
instruct them to: git for windows comes with perl, because significant 
parts of git are written in perl.
putting ...\Git\usr\bin into the shell's PATH is not the recommended 
installation mode of GfW, but having instructions to do so in a qt build 
environment seems rather reasonable to me.
and any git-something in PATH that gets run as `git something` (yes, 
this just works) has perl in its PATH, which makes launching perl 
scripts from qt5/qtrepotools//bin a breeze.