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. If you can certify it, then just add a line to every git commit message:
Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <[email protected]>
Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions). The email id should match the email id provided in your GitHub profile.
If you set your user.name and user.email in git config, you can sign your commit automatically with git commit -s.
You can also use git aliases like git config --global alias.ci 'commit -s'. Now you can commit with git ci and the commit will be signed.
All the new changes to this repository need to follow coding style as per ./cstyle.pl script. But, due to many legacy files which are not having coding style as per ./cstyle.pl script, make cstyle fails.
So, verify the lint errors by running ./cstyle.pl <filename_with_path> on the modified files to make sure that new modifications meets the coding style.
If PR is about adding a new feature or bug fixes then Authors of the PR are expected to add a changelog file with their pull request. This changelog file should be a new file created under changelogs/unreleased folder. Name of this file must be in in pr_number-username format and contents of the file should be the one liner text which explain the feature or bug fix.
istgt/changelogs/unreleased <- folder
12-github_user_name <- file