CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to VibeVoice

Thank you for your interest in VibeVoice. VibeVoice is an academic-oriented research project.
Our core principles are code minimalism, high readability, and functional purity.

1. Preferred Contributions

• Bug Fixes & New Features
  These are our primary focus.

• Minimalism First
  Code must be concise, clear, and minimal.

2. Rejected Patterns

• Over-Engineering
  We will reject unnecessary encapsulation, excessive abstraction, or complex architectural refactoring.
  Please remember this is research-purposed code, not a commercial enterprise project.

• Style Tweaks
  PRs solely for formatting, beautification, or non-functional style adjustments will be rejected.

• Non-English Contributions
  PRs containing non-English code comments, documentation, commit messages, or descriptions will be rejected.

3. Review Policy

• Line-by-Line Review
  Maintainers strictly audit every single line of change manually. Before submitting, ensure you have personally scrutinized and fully mastered all code logic.

• Caution Regarding AI-Generated Code
  LLM-generated code often contains redundant logic and subtle defects. Large chunks of AI-generated code will be rejected unless they have undergone rigorous human cleaning and verification.
  Ensure that every line of code has an absolute necessity to exist.

4. Documentation Standards

• Precise & Concise
  VibeVoice's documentation serves a global research community. We hold extremely high standards: changes must be succinct and accurate.
  Please eliminate all verbosity and redundancy to ensure maximum information density.

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We look forward to receiving precise, streamlined, and substantively valuable research contributions.