1# Contributing 2 3Prometheus uses GitHub to manage reviews of pull requests. 4 5* If you have a trivial fix or improvement, go ahead and create a pull request, 6 addressing (with `@...`) the maintainer of this repository (see 7 [MAINTAINERS.md](MAINTAINERS.md)) in the description of the pull request. 8 9* If you plan to do something more involved, first discuss your ideas 10 on our [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/prometheus-developers). 11 This will avoid unnecessary work and surely give you and us a good deal 12 of inspiration. 13 14* Relevant coding style guidelines are the [Go Code Review 15 Comments](https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/CodeReviewComments) 16 and the _Formatting and style_ section of Peter Bourgon's [Go: Best 17 Practices for Production 18 Environments](http://peter.bourgon.org/go-in-production/#formatting-and-style). 19