Re: Signing all patches and email to this list

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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Hi Matthew,

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 06:28:42PM -0500, Matthew House wrote:
> > +       Sign your emails with PGP
> > +             Please sign all of your emails sent to the mailing list,
> > +             including your emails containing patches, with your PGP
> > +             key.  This helps establish trust between you and other
> > +             contributors of this project, and prevent others
> > +             impersonating you.
> 
> If this is meant to be a suggestion rather than an obligation, then I'd
> prefer if it had an explicit statement to the effect that it is (strongly?)
> encouraged but not mandatory. If I were reading CONTRIBUTING for the first
> time, I'd be inclined to read the bare imperative "Please sign all of your
> emails" as a hard requirement, and be scared off on account of not even
> having a PGP key.

Yep, I was worried I would scare off those who don't even have one.
Thanks for the suggestion; will update accordingly.

Cheers,
Alex

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