The Ghostty non-profit has signed our first long-term paid contributor via a 12-month agreement with
@vancluever. He's a top-quality engineer, has been part of the Ghostty community for years, and has consistently demonstrated an extremely high quality and judgement bar.
He is the creator and maintainer of z2d, the vector graphics library that Ghostty uses. He has contributed upstream to the Zig compiler and Arocc C compiler dozens of times.
The way Ghostty contributor contracts work is that there is no stated or mandated area of focus. I trust Chris to work on worthwhile tasks, and Chris has demonstrated he does so far, so there's no need to push him one way or the other. He chooses what to work on and describes his work to the non-profit (so it's all aligned and legal to compensate).
As I spend more time focused on libghostty, especially the libghostty needs of
@superlogical, I want to ensure that the broader Ghostty project continues to be staffed and healthy. We'll be signing more contributor contracts soon!