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  • ## Contributing to YOLOv5 🚀
    
    We love your input! We want to make contributing to YOLOv5 as easy and transparent as possible, whether it's:
    
    - Reporting a bug
    - Discussing the current state of the code
    - Submitting a fix
    - Proposing a new feature
    - Becoming a maintainer
    
    YOLOv5 works so well due to our combined community effort, and for every small improvement you contribute you will be
    helping push the frontiers of what's possible in AI 😃!
    
    ## Submitting a Pull Request (PR) 🛠️
    
    Submitting a PR is easy! This example shows how to submit a PR for updating `requirements.txt` in 4 steps:
    
    ### 1. Select File to Update
    
    Select `requirements.txt` to update by clicking on it in GitHub.
    
    <p align="center"><img width="800" alt="PR_step1" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26833433/122260847-08be2600-ced4-11eb-828b-8287ace4136c.png"></p>
    
    ### 2. Click 'Edit this file'
    
    The button is in the top-right corner.
    
    <p align="center"><img width="800" alt="PR_step2" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26833433/122260844-06f46280-ced4-11eb-9eec-b8a24be519ca.png"></p>
    
    ### 3. Make Changes
    
    Change the `matplotlib` version from `3.2.2` to `3.3`.
    
    <p align="center"><img width="800" alt="PR_step3" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26833433/122260853-0a87e980-ced4-11eb-9fd2-3650fb6e0842.png"></p>
    
    ### 4. Preview Changes and Submit PR
    
    Click on the **Preview changes** tab to verify your updates. At the bottom of the screen select 'Create a **new branch**
    for this commit', assign your branch a descriptive name such as `fix/matplotlib_version` and click the green **Propose
    changes** button. All done, your PR is now submitted to YOLOv5 for review and approval 😃!
    
    <p align="center"><img width="800" alt="PR_step4" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26833433/122260856-0b208000-ced4-11eb-8e8e-77b6151cbcc3.png"></p>
    
    ### PR recommendations
    
    To allow your work to be integrated as seamlessly as possible, we advise you to:
    
    - ✅ Verify your PR is **up-to-date** with `ultralytics/yolov5` `master` branch. If your PR is behind you can update
      your code by clicking the 'Update branch' button or by running `git pull` and `git merge master` locally.
    
    <p align="center"><img width="751" alt="Screenshot 2022-08-29 at 22 47 15" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26833433/187295893-50ed9f44-b2c9-4138-a614-de69bd1753d7.png"></p>
    
    - ✅ Verify all YOLOv5 Continuous Integration (CI) **checks are passing**.
    
    <p align="center"><img width="751" alt="Screenshot 2022-08-29 at 22 47 03" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26833433/187296922-545c5498-f64a-4d8c-8300-5fa764360da6.png"></p>
    
    - ✅ Reduce changes to the absolute **minimum** required for your bug fix or feature addition. _"It is not daily increase
      but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is."_  — Bruce Lee
    
    ## Submitting a Bug Report 🐛
    
    If you spot a problem with YOLOv5 please submit a Bug Report!
    
    For us to start investigating a possible problem we need to be able to reproduce it ourselves first. We've created a few
    short guidelines below to help users provide what we need to get started.
    
    When asking a question, people will be better able to provide help if you provide **code** that they can easily
    understand and use to **reproduce** the problem. This is referred to by community members as creating
    a [minimum reproducible example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example). Your code that reproduces
    the problem should be:
    
    -**Minimal** – Use as little code as possible that still produces the same problem
    -**Complete** – Provide **all** parts someone else needs to reproduce your problem in the question itself
    -**Reproducible** – Test the code you're about to provide to make sure it reproduces the problem
    
    In addition to the above requirements, for [Ultralytics](https://ultralytics.com/) to provide assistance your code
    should be:
    
    -**Current** – Verify that your code is up-to-date with the current
      GitHub [master](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/tree/master), and if necessary `git pull` or `git clone` a new
      copy to ensure your problem has not already been resolved by previous commits.
    -**Unmodified** – Your problem must be reproducible without any modifications to the codebase in this
      repository. [Ultralytics](https://ultralytics.com/) does not provide support for custom code ⚠️.
    
    If you believe your problem meets all of the above criteria, please close this issue and raise a new one using the 🐛
    **Bug Report** [template](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/issues/new/choose) and provide
    a [minimum reproducible example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example) to help us better
    understand and diagnose your problem.
    
    ## License
    
    By contributing, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under
    the [GPL-3.0 license](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-3.0/)