z2d Public Contribution Notice

Pull requests to the z2d project are restricted. If you have a feature request or bug, please open an issue to get further help.

Please do not use AI to open issues. If you are using AI or an agent to understand an issue, take the time to comprehend the output and explain the issue in your own words before submitting.

Why?

I created z2d as a first-principles approach to understanding graphics programming. Everything implemented in the library has been either done so from scratch or imported from other projects in a way that I have been able to learn and understand from the experience. As the library continues to grow and improve, it's important to me that this remains this way.

Having the library remain largely authored by myself if the best way to ensure that this happens. It also ensures that the library continues to follow a trajectory that I think is best for the purposes it serves, and ensures that I will not burn out as the maintainer and principal author.

Finally, while the z2d project has luckily not yet been affected by this, the increasing trend of AI-submitted work has made me loath to keep my projects open to external contributions in general. On a personal level, I am not very interested in even having to engage with content created by AI coding agents and/or other tools. This is not a blanket judgment of the work produced by such tools, or those that use them. To each their own.

Open source, not open contribution

This project is open source and distributed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License. Open source, however does not necessarily mean open contribution, a point that seems to have been in discourse a lot recently due to the points made in the last paragraph of the previous section.

Probably the best example of a closed-contribution project is SQLite, which has some great rationale and statements to this end on their copyright page. Echoing the sentiments particularly in the last part of that page, feature requests and proof of concepts are welcome, however I will more than likely implement all solutions to these personally.