= Contributing =

Contributions to the project are always welcome. Whether it is with bug reports, documentation improvements, patches for new features or bug fixes, or suggestions.

== Bug reports ==

Bug reports should go to the [http://elixir.ematia.de/trac/report/1 ticket system]. You'll need to login as '''guest'''/'''guest''' to enter a new ticket.

== Patches ==

Patches will preferably be in unified diff format and done against a recent checkout from subversion. Then, you can either create a ticket with the patch attached, or attach the patch to a mailing list message, whichever is more convenient for you. If you are looking for tasks needing help, please look at [http://elixir.ematia.de/trac/report/1?asc=1&sort=owner] and pick any non-assigned ticket you would like to work on. If you are interested to work on an already-assigned ticket, feel free to do so, but please write a comment on the ticket saying so before you start as to not duplicate work.

=== Coding guidelines ===

We try to follow [http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ PEP8 recommendations] as closely as possible. Pay special attention to:
 * Indent is 4 spaces.
 * Lines are max 79 characters long.

== Documentation improvements ==

If you want to contribute documentation improvements, there are two options: 
 * if you would like to improve the tutorial, the FAQ or any other page of the wiki, please login as '''guest'''/'''guest''' and edit the page directly.
 * if you would like to improve the API documentation (which is generated from the docstrings of the code), please make your modifications to those docstrings directly (preferably using a recent checkout from subversion) and make a patch out of it (see above).

== Suggestions ==

If you have a suggestion, comment or anything else to say, please use the [wiki:Contact mailing list].