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+Before making a pull request, please follow these steps:
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+1. If you are adding a new feature, [open an issue](https://github.com/tomography/xdesign/issues) explaining what you want to add.
+2. Use [pycodstyle](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycodestyle) or something similar to check for PEP8 compliance.
+3. Create new tests for your new code and pass the existing tests by calling [nosetests](http://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) on the tests directory.   
+4. Document your code with [reST](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/1.5.1/rest.html) because we use `Sphinx` to generate our documentation.