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+# Contributing to Profanity
+
+## Coding style
+Follow the style already present ;-)
+
+## Pull Requests
+Before submitting a Pull Request please run valgrind and the clang static code analyzer.
+
+### valgrind
+We provide a suppressions file `prof.supp`. It is a combination of the suppressions for shipped with glib2, python and custom rules.
+
+`G_DEBUG=gc-friendly G_SLICE=always-malloc valgrind --tool=memcheck --track-origins=yes --leak-check=full --leak-resolution=high --num-callers=30 --show-leak-kinds=definite --log-file=profval --suppressions=prof.supp ./profanity`
+
+### clang
+
+Running the clang static code analyzer helps improving the quality too.
+
+```
+make clean
+scan-build make
+scan-view ...
+```