1# Contributing
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3Prometheus uses GitHub to manage reviews of pull requests.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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