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Update contibuter docs to mention that DCO signoff is mandatory (#365)
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Signed-off-by: Abhilash Shetty <[email protected]>
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abhilashshetty04 authored Jul 12, 2022
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* Raise a new [Pull Request](https://github.com/openebs/jiva/pulls).
* 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).

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## Sign your work

We use the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) as an additional safeguard for the OpenEBS project. 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:

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Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <[email protected]>
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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.

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### Make your changes and build them

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