Contributing to the Project
===========================

We welcome contributions in the form of bug reports, feature requests,
and pull requests (PRs). This document describes how you can
contribute.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests
--------------------------------

Please submit bug reports and feature requests as GitHub issues. This
helps us to keep track of them and discuss potential solutions or
enhancements.

LLM Benchmark Results
---------------------

Contributions of
[LLM benchmark results](https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/)
are welcome!
See the
[benchmark README](https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/benchmark/README.md)
for information on running aider's code editing benchmarks.
Submit results by opening a PR with edits to the
[benchmark results data files](https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/_data/).


Pull Requests
-------------

We appreciate your pull requests. For small changes, feel free to
submit a PR directly. If you are considering a large or significant
change, please discuss it in a GitHub issue before submitting the
PR. This will save both you and the maintainers time, and it helps to
ensure that your contributions can be integrated smoothly.

Licensing
---------

By contributing to this project, you agree that your contributions
will be licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Additionally, you
understand and agree that contributions may be subject to a different
license, should the project maintainers decide to change the licensing
terms.