citus/CONTRIBUTING.md

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# Contributing to Citus
We're happy you want to contribute! You can help us in different ways:
* Open an [issue](https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues) with
suggestions for improvements
* Fork this repository and submit a pull request
### Getting and building
1. Install the following prerequisites, as necessary:
- A C compiler. On Mac OS X, Xcode should suffice.
- PostgreSQL development libraries
```bash
# on mac
brew install postgresql
# on linux
apt-get install libpq-dev
```
- Git 1.8+
2. Get the code
```bash
git clone https://github.com/citusdata/citus.git
```
3. Build and test
```bash
./configure
make
make install
make check
```