From 8a7825ca8f163950568db2631b5118471673ef19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Peach Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 01:23:16 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: update DCO guidelines in CONTRIBUTING (#2425) Update the DCO guidelines in the contribution documentation to clarify that a real name and email address is required. Signed-off-by: James Peach Co-authored-by: Steve Sloka --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 2839f0417e1..0776f9fa7aa 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ All authors to the project retain copyright to their work. However, to ensure that they are only submitting work that they have rights to, we are requiring everyone to acknowledge this by signing their work. +Since this signature indicates your rights to the contribution and +certifies the statements below, it must contain your real name and +email address. Various forms of noreply email address must not be used. + Any copyright notices in this repository should specify the authors as "The project authors". @@ -180,7 +184,7 @@ Signed-off-by: David Cheney This can easily be done with the `--signoff` option to `git commit`. -By doing this you state that you can certify the following (from https://developercertificate.org/): +By doing this you state that you can certify the following (from [https://developercertificate.org/][5]): ``` Developer Certificate of Origin