CONTRIBUTING.md

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) 🛠️

To allow your work to be integrated as seamlessly as possible, we advise you to:

• ✅ Verify your PR is up-to-date with origin/master. If your PR is behind origin/master an automatic GitHub actions rebase may be attempted by including the /rebase command in a comment body, or by running the following code, replacing 'feature' with the name of your local branch:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5.git
git fetch upstream
git checkout feature  # <----- replace 'feature' with local branch name
git merge upstream/master
git push -u origin -f

• ✅ Verify all Continuous Integration (CI) checks are passing.
• ✅ 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 🐛

For us to investigate an issue we would need to be able to reproduce it ourselves first. We've created a few short guidelines below to help users provide what we need in order to get started investigating a possible problem.

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. 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 to provide assistance your code should be:

• ✅ Current – Verify that your code is up-to-date with current GitHub 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 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 and providing a minimum 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