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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'
+
+Button is in 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 `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 upstream/master.** If your PR is behind upstream/master an
+  automatic [GitHub actions](https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/blob/master/.github/workflows/rebase.yml) 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:
+
+  ```bash
+  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 🐛
+
+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 in order 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 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 providing
+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/)