# Background
Under most circumstances, manually downloading this repository should never
be required.

# Prerequisites
# Base
* [Google Protocol Buffers](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers)

## Java
* [Apache Maven](http://maven.apache.org)
* [Prometheus Maven Repository](https://github.com/prometheus/io.prometheus-maven-repository) checked out into ../io.prometheus-maven-repository

## Go
*  [Go](http://golang.org)
*  [goprotobuf](https://code.google.com/p/goprotobuf)

## Ruby
*  [Ruby](https://www.ruby-lang.org)
*  [bundler](https://rubygems.org/gems/bundler)

# Building
    $ make

# Getting Started
  * The Go source code is periodically indexed: [Go Protocol Buffer Model](http://godoc.org/github.com/prometheus/client_model/go).
  * All of the core developers are accessible via the [Prometheus Developers Mailinglist](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/prometheus-developers).