Adding dotfiles for Travis, Flake, Coverage and Pylint (#359)

Author: sanathkr

.coveragerc

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+[run]
+branch = True
+[report]
+exclude_lines =
+    pragma: no cover
+    raise NotImplementedError.*

.flake8

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+[flake8]
+max-line-length = 120
+ignore = E126

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md

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+<!--
+
+Before reporting a new issue, make sure we don't have any duplicates already open or closed by
+searching the issues list. If there is a duplicate, re-open or add a comment to the
+existing issue instead of creating a new one. If you are reporting a bug,
+make sure to include relevant information asked below to help with debugging.
+
+## GENERAL HELP QUESTIONS ##
+Github Issues is for bug reports and feature requests. If you have general support
+questions, the following locations are a good place:
+
+- Post a question in StackOverflow  with "aws-sam" tag
+
+-->
+
+**Description:**
+
+<!-- Briefly describe the problem you are facing -->
+
+**Steps to reproduce the issue:**
+1.
+2.
+3.
+
+**Observed result:**
+
+**Expected result:**
+

.gitignore

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 .DS_Store
 node_modules
 docs/website/_build
+
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+MANIFEST
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+.cache
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+.hypothesis/
+.pytest_cache/
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+.static_storage/
+.media/
+local_settings.py
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# pyenv
+.python-version
+
+# celery beat schedule file
+celerybeat-schedule
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+env.bak/
+venv.bak/
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+
+# VSCode
 .vscode
-.idea
+
+# PyCharm
+.idea