## 🎉 Welcome
Hello and thank you for considering contributing to Portkey's AI Gateway! Whether you're reporting a bug, suggesting a feature, improving documentation, or writing code, your contributions are invaluable to us.

## 🚀 Quick Start
1. Fork the repository on Github.
2. Clone your forked repository to your machine. 
```sh
$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/gateway.git
```

## 🖋 Types of Contributions
1. New integrations: Creating integrations for other LLM providers or vendors in general.
2. Bug fixes
3. Enhancements
4. Documentation
5. **Hacktoberfest** submissions!

## 🗓️ Hacktoberfest
During the [Hacktoberfest month](https://hacktoberfest.com/), running from October 1st to 31st, your accepted PR will count towards your Hacktoberfest participation! 🚀

✅ To gain acceptance, your PR must be merged, approved, or tagged with the `hacktoberfest-accepted` label.

🧐 Remember to adhere to the [quality standards](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/resources/qualitystandards) to avoid your PR being marked as `spam` or `invalid`.

## 🔄 Raising PRs
1. Once you are done with your changes, format and Lint your code by running:
```sh
make format; make lint
```
2. While raising your PRs, please prepend any of the following to your title:
*   `provider:` for adding new LLM providers.
*   `integration:` for new integrations.
*   `docs`: for new cookbooks, doc additions, etc.
*   `improvement:` for improvements or enhancements.
*   `bug:` for bug fixes.
*   `hacktoberfest:` for Hacktoberfest contributions

## 🤔 Getting Help
Facing issues or have questions? Don't hesitate to share your doubts or questions on our [Discord Community](https://discord.com/invite/DD7vgKK299) - this is the quickest way to get support and connect with other contributors.

## 🚧 Release Process
Releases are made as soon as possible to ensure that new features and fixes reach our users quickly. We follow a seamless CI/CD pipeline to ensure the smooth transition of code from development to production.

## 🎊 Your PR is Merged!
All successful PRs are celebrated on our [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/DD7vgKK299) and are mentioned in the release notes, and significant contributions are highlighted on our [Twitter](https://twitter.com/PortkeyAI). Stay tuned for more bounties and goodies for contributors in the near future!