meta: add note about email sync to CONTRIBUTING.md

PR-URL: nodejs/node#16340 Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Yuta Hiroto <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <[email protected]> Refs: nodejs/node#16339 (comment)
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@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ Create a branch and start hacking:
 ```text
 $ git checkout -b my-branch -t origin/latest
 ```
+Please make sure this local email is also added to your
+[GitHub email list](https://github.com/settings/emails) so that your commits
+will be properly associated with your account and you will be promoted
+to Contributor once your first commit is landed.
 
 Any text you write should follow the [Style Guide](doc/STYLE_GUIDE.md),
 including comments and API documentation.