From 9f3579b2924ed1ecad4dec97bdf74940d50d0fab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Wall Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:57:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Simplify the CONTRIBUTING.md document Signed-off-by: Richard Wall --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 63 +------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 62 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index ea2a7a859..156378c9d 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -1,64 +1,3 @@ # Contributing -You can find our full contributing guide on [our website](https://cert-manager.io/docs/contributing/). - -## DCO Sign off - -All contributors to the project retain copyright to their work. However, to ensure -that they are only submitting work that they have rights to, we require -everyone to acknowledge this by signing their work. - -Any copyright notices in this repo should specify the authors as -"The cert-manager Authors". - -To sign your work, just add a line like this at the end of your commit message: - -```text -Signed-off-by: Joe Bloggs -``` - -This can easily be done with the `--signoff` option to `git commit`. -You can also mass sign-off a whole PR with `git rebase --signoff master`, replacing -`master` with the branch you are creating a pull request again if not master. - -By doing this you state that you can certify the following (from https://developercertificate.org/): - -```text -Developer Certificate of Origin -Version 1.1 - -Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors. -1 Letterman Drive -Suite D4700 -San Francisco, CA, 94129 - -Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this -license document, but changing it is not allowed. - - -Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 - -By making a contribution to this project, I certify that: - -(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I - have the right to submit it under the open source license - indicated in the file; or - -(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best - of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source - license and I have the right under that license to submit that - work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part - by me, under the same open source license (unless I am - permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated - in the file; or - -(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other - person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified - it. - -(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution - are public and that a record of the contribution (including all - personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is - maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with - this project or the open source license(s) involved. -``` +Please refer to the [cert-manager Contributing guide](https://cert-manager.io/docs/contributing/).