diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 3b00125..5d7727e 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -33,10 +33,13 @@ ZFS-LocalPV is an Apache 2.0 Licensed project and all your commits should be sig - DCO Signed * If your PR is not getting reviewed or you need a specific person to review it, please reach out to the OpenEBS Contributors. See [OpenEBS Community](https://github.com/openebs/openebs/tree/HEAD/community) +--- ## Sign your work We use the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) as an additional safeguard for the OpenEBS projects. This is a well established and widely used mechanism to assure that contributors have confirmed their right to license their contribution under the project's license. Please read [dcofile](https://github.com/openebs/openebs/blob/HEAD/contribute/developer-certificate-of-origin). If you can certify it, then just add a line to every git commit message: +Please certify it by just adding a line to every git commit message. Any PR with Commits which does not have DCO Signoff will not be accepted: + ```` Signed-off-by: Random J Developer ```` @@ -46,6 +49,7 @@ If you set your `user.name` and `user.email` in git config, you can sign your co 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. +--- ## Adding a changelog If PR is about adding a new feature or bug fix then the Author of the PR is expected to add a changelog file with their pull request. This changelog file should be a new file created under the `changelogs/unreleased` folder. Name of this file must be in `pr_number-username` format and contents of the file should be the one-liner text which explains the feature or bug fix.