add more developer related information

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diff --git a/docs/download.rst b/docs/download.rst
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+++ b/docs/download.rst
@@ -4,19 +4,21 @@ Download
 You can get the latest version of SQLAlchemy Migrate from the
 `project's download page`_, the `cheese shop`_, pip_ or via easy_install_::
 
-    easy_install sqlalchemy-migrate
+ $ easy_install sqlalchemy-migrate
 
 or::
 
-    pip install sqlalchemy-migrate
+ $ pip install sqlalchemy-migrate
 
-You should now be able to use the *migrate* command from the command
+You should now be able to use the :command:`migrate` command from the command
 line::
 
- migrate
+ $ migrate
 
-This should list all available commands. ``migrate help COMMAND`` will
-display more information about each command.
+This should list all available commands. To get more information regarding a
+command use::
+
+ $ migrate help COMMAND
 
 If you'd like to be notified when new versions of SQLAlchemy Migrate
 are released, subscribe to `migrate-announce`_.
@@ -28,6 +30,8 @@ are released, subscribe to `migrate-announce`_.
 .. _`cheese shop`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlalchemy-migrate
 .. _`migrate-announce`: http://groups.google.com/group/migrate-announce
 
+.. _development:
+
 Development
 -----------
 
@@ -35,13 +39,33 @@ Migrate's Mercurial_ repository is located at `Google Code`_.
 
 To get the latest trunk::
 
-    hg clone http://sqlalchemy-migrate.googlecode.com/hg/
+ $ hg clone http://sqlalchemy-migrate.googlecode.com/hg/
+
+Patches should be submitted to the `issue tracker`_. You are free to create
+your own clone to provide your patches. We are open to pull requests in our
+`issue tracker`_.
+
+If you want to work on sqlalchemy-migrate you might want to use a `virtualenv`.
+
+To run the included test suite you have to copy :file:`test_db.cfg.tmpl` to
+:file:`test_db.cfg` and put SQLAlchemy database URLs valid for your environment
+into that file. We use `nose`_ for our tests and include a test requirements
+file for pip. You might use the following commands to install the test
+requirements and run the tests::
+
+ $ pip install -r test-req.pip
+ $ python setup.py develop
+ $ python setup.py nosetests
 
-Patches should be submitted to the `issue tracker`_.
+If you are curious about status changes of sqlalchemy-migrate's issues you
+might want to subscribe to `sqlalchemy-migrate-issues`_.
 
-We use `hudson`_ Continuous Integration tool to help us run tests on all databases that migrate supports.
+We use a `Jenkins CI`_ continuous integration tool installation to
+help us run tests on most of the databases that migrate supports.
 
 .. _Mercurial: http://www.mercurial-scm.org/
 .. _Google Code: http://sqlalchemy-migrate.googlecode.com/hg/
 .. _issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/sqlalchemy-migrate/issues/list
-.. _hudson: http://hudson.fubar.si
+.. _sqlalchemy-migrate-issues: http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy-migrate-issues
+.. _Jenkins CI: http://jenkins.gnuviech-server.de/job/sqlalchemy-migrate-all/
+.. _nose: http://readthedocs.org/docs/nose/