# Contributing

We are always open for suggestions or pull requests.

You can search after ``diff:first issue`` for good issues to get in touch with this project.

When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue, email, or any other
method with the owners of this repository before making a change.

Please note we have a code of conduct, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.

## Pull Request Process

1. Ensure any install or build dependencies are removed before the end of the layer when doing a build.
2. Update the README.md with details of changes to the interface, this includes new environment variables, exposed
   ports, useful file locations and container parameters.
3. Increase the version numbers in any examples files and the README.md to the new version that this Pull Request would
   represent. The versioning scheme we use is SemVer.
4. You may merge the Pull Request in once you have the sign-off of another developer, or if you do not have
   permission to do that, you may request the reviewer to merge it for you.