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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index d22f70d9..c447a56c 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -52,3 +52,22 @@ issue or contacting one or more of the project maintainers. This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant](http://contributor-covenant.org), version 1.2.0, available at [http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/2/0/](http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/2/0/) + +### Sign your work + +We use the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) as a additional safeguard +for the Nextcloud project. This is a well established and widely used +mechanism to assure contributors have confirmed their right to license +their contribution under the project's license. +Please read [contribute/developer-certificate-of-origin][dcofile]. +If you can certify it, then just add a line to every git commit message: + +```` + Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org> +```` + +Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions). +If you set your `user.name` and `user.email` git configs, you can sign your +commit automatically with `git commit -s`. You can also use git [aliases](https://git-scm.com/book/tr/v2/Git-Basics-Git-Aliases) +like `git config --global alias.ci 'commit -s'`. Now you can commit with +`git ci` and the commit will be signed. |