# Contributing to `mzR`
 
 We welcome contributions from everybody, including bug fixes, new

 features, improvements on the documentation, and general suggestions.

 Here are some pieces of advice and suggestions:

 * We recommend to discuss changes and contributions in a Github issue,
  in particular when these are substantial.

 * Check in the
  current [Github issues](https://github.com/sneumann/mzR/issues) to
  see if a similar issue is already discussed, and join efforts.

 * Make the updates as small and contained as possible, possibly under
  different Github commits, to facilitate the code review. Don't
  hesitate to use the Github code review.

 * Follow the coding style used in the package. See also the
   Bioconductor coding
   style
   [here](https://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/coding-style/).

 * Ideally, add a unit test that checks the new code, examples are in
   `mzR/inst/unitTests`.
 
 * Please avoid platform specific code to assure that `mzR` builds and
   checks Linux, Windows and OSX. Pull requests will also be checked by
   https://travis-ci.org/sneumann/mzR/

 * Make sure to also update the documentation (man pages and/or
   vignette) to make sure users are aware of the changes.

 
 * If your change is visible to users (new features, bug fix, updated
   documentation, ...) update the `NEWS` file.
 
 Before sending a pull request, we advice to discuss the changes in a
 Github issue, in particular when these are substantial.
 
 ### Contributor Code of Conduct
 
 As contributors and maintainers of this project, we pledge to respect
 all people who contribute through reporting issues, posting feature
 requests, updating documentation, submitting pull requests or patches,
 and other activities.
 
 We are committed to making participation in this project a
 harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of level of
 experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual
 orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race,
 ethnicity, age, or religion.
 
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 Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit,
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 the project team.
 
 Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behaviour
 may be reported by opening an issue or contacting one or more of the
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 This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version
 1.0.0, available from http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/0/0/