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 # Contributing
 
-Alertmanager uses GitHub to manage reviews of pull requests.
-
-* If you have a trivial fix or improvement, go ahead and create a pull request,
-  addressing (with `@...`) the maintainer of this repository (see
-  [MAINTAINERS.md](MAINTAINERS.md)) in the description of the pull request.
-
-* If you plan to do something more involved, first discuss your ideas
-  on our [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/prometheus-developers).
-  This will avoid unnecessary work and surely give you and us a good deal
-  of inspiration.
-
-* Relevant coding style guidelines are the [Go Code Review
-  Comments](https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/CodeReviewComments)
-  and the _Formatting and style_ section of Peter Bourgon's [Go: Best
-  Practices for Production
-  Environments](http://peter.bourgon.org/go-in-production/#formatting-and-style).
+Please check the [Prometheus contributing page](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).