Request to join as team member/maintainer

Hi @mckaywrigley and team,

I've been actively contributing to chatbot-ui and wanted to express interest in joining as a team member or maintainer to help with ongoing development and maintenance.

Contributions Summary

I've submitted 6 PRs over the past period:

1. #1998 - Fix: Disable next-pwa in development mode (Issue #1978)
2. #1999 - Feat: Add OPENAI_BASE_URL for OpenAI-compatible APIs (Issue #1990)
3. #2000 - Docs: Clarify supabase status values mapping (Issue #1983)
4. #2001 - Feat: Add GPT-4o mini support
5. #2002 - Feat: Add CometAPI as LLM provider (Issue #1975)
6. #2003 - Feat: Add OpenAI o1-preview, o1-mini, and GPT-4o mini models

Areas of Focus

• Model integrations: Adding latest OpenAI models and new providers
• Developer experience: Improving local development setup
• Documentation: Clarifying setup instructions
• Feature parity: Ensuring latest LLM capabilities are available

Why Me?

• Consistent contributor with high-quality, well-tested PRs
• Follows project patterns and conventions
• Provides comprehensive PR descriptions with testing steps
• Available for ongoing maintenance, issue triage, and community support
• Actively maintains a fork synced with upstream

Happy to Help With

• Reviewing open issues and prioritizing backlog
• Bug fixes and feature requests
• Documentation maintenance
• Community support and issue triage

Let me know if there's a process for joining the team or if you'd like to discuss further.

Thanks for consideration!

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Kushal Lukhi GitHub: @KushalLukhi