Hello Ghostty Testers! 👋👻

Thank you for being an early Ghostty user! I'm super excited to have you here. Please, please read the README! There is a lot of information in the README that I will not be repeating here, especially about how to get Ghostty and configure it.

Let's Build An Excellent Terminal

The Ghostty development process so far has been a cycle of inviting people, getting Ghostty to work great for them, then inviting new people once it feels stable.

So, if you're part of a new group, expect there will be bugs! Ghostty may work really great for previous testers, but every new group of users has their own OS quirks, programs, expected features, etc. that tend to surface new issues. That's why you're here and I appreciate you so much!

I will not invite new groups of testers until Ghostty is very stable and excellent for the previous group of testers. So let's work together on getting Ghostty to a place that works well for you.

Talking About Ghostty Publicly

Feel free to talk about Ghostty, share screenshots, etc. in the public! Please don't share source access yet. And obviously, if Ghostty is buggy or you want to say something mean, I'd rather you talk to me first so I can try to fix it, this is an early beta after all... I hope no testers I invite would be mean, though!

Reporting Issues and Contributing

Please report any issues you have, including feature requests! Because we're in a closed beta period, there aren't really many rules -- just open 'em up and we'll have a discussion.

That said, feel free to contribute! I would love that. If you want any help, ask in Discord and I'll do my best to point you in the right direction or even pair (time permitting) if you're interested.

Bug Priority

This is the priority of bugs:

Crashes. 💥 These are just unacceptable and I'll drop everything to fix a crash.
Escape sequence logic or rendering issues. These are almost as bad as crashes because they usually make your workflow unusable. This includes unsupported escape sequences that impact your workflow.
Anything else...

Let's Talk!

By being invited to the project, you also should've been invited to the Discord community. If you haven't, please open an issue and I'll post an expiring invite link.

The Discord community is private, for now. Please don't invite friends, yet! I want to keep it limited to testers.

Other FAQ

Can I Invite a Friend?

Please bring it up in Discord so I (@mitchellh) can personally invite them. But generally, yes! We'd rather have friends or people we know involved in testing early on rather than strangers (although, happy to meet you!). So if you have a friend that is interested and you think would be a great addition, please let me know.

I want to help, what can I work on?

I'd really love that, I want to foster a healthy contributing community with Ghostty over time, and I really appreciate the help.

Take a look at the issues list. Feel free to suggest new things. If you have a favorite feature from some other terminal emulator, let's build it! My only ask is that for big features, please ask the Discord first to gauge interest/acceptance for it before opening up some huge PR.

There are also non-core help we can use: docs, website work, Discord bots, etc. etc. For example, a web UI to generate a configuration file would be cool. Or a web UI to preview your color settings.

Is Ghostty Open Source?

Right now technically not (no license file). But yes, it will be full open source (by the OSI definition). I'm not sure what license to choose yet, leaning towards going with GPL for this project but open to ideas.

We will add a license prior to opening up the repository. During the private beta period, I'll continue with a no license project.

3.8 KiB Raw Blame History