# Development and Contributing

All contributions are very welcome! You can contribute in many ways:

- Join the python code quality mailing list and answer questions.
- Report bugs on the GitHub issue tracker.
- Submit pull requests on the GitHub repository. Ideally make a pull request to the develop branch, as I prefer to keep the master branch the same as the most recent release on PyPI. If you do this, be sure to add yourself to the CONTRIBUTORS.md file too!

## Code Quality

As a code quality testing tool, it makes sense to strive to be a good example of good code! To that end, prospector is checked by Landscape <https://landscape.io>_ and ideally when making a pull request, please take note of any decreases in quality.

Additionally, there is a pre-commit configuration to prevent various small problems before they are committed. Check the site for more information but the short version is:

    pip install pre-commit
    pre-commit install

## Tests

There are not a huge number of tests right now, as most of the code in Prospector is handling the output of other tools. However, please do run them before submitting a pull request:

    nosetests tests/

Prospector targets Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4. You can use tox to test this locally, and all tests are run on travis.org.