Contributing

First of all, thank you for your interest in contributing to this project!

Filing bug reports

Bug reports are very welcome. Please file them on the GitHub issue tracker. Good bug reports come with extensive descriptions of the error and how to reproduce it. Try to use the provided issue template, it should be displayed by the GitHub website when creating a new issue.

Patches

All patches should be submitted in the form of pull requests to the main repository, DinoTools/python-ssdeep. These pull requests should satisfy the following properties:

Code

• A pull request should focus on one particular improvement or change.
• Create different pull requests for unrelated features or bugfixes.
• Python code should follow PEP 8, especially in the “do what code around you does” sense.
• Add test if possible

Documentation

When introducing new functionality, please remember to write documentation.

Review

Finally, pull requests must be reviewed before merging. Everyone can perform reviews; this is a very valuable way to contribute, and is highly encouraged.