[PATCH v2] CONTRIBUTING: Please sign your emails with PGP

Alejandro Colomar
2023-11-22T13:48:01Z

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Cc: Matthew House <mattlloydhouse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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CONTRIBUTING | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
index 475244c13..7b85e7375 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -56,6 +56,29 @@ Description

help

+ Sign your emails with PGP
+ It is strongly encouraged that you sign all of your emails sent
+ to the mailing list, (especially) including the ones containing
+ patches, with your PGP key. This helps establish trust between
+ you and other contributors of this project, and prevent others
+ impersonating you. If you don't have a key, it's not mandatory
+ to sign your email, but you're encouraged to create and start
+ using a PGP key.
+
+ There are many ways you can sign your patches, and it depends on
+ your preferred tools. You can use git-send-email(1) in
+ combination with mutt(1). For that, do the following.
+
+ In <~/.gitconfig>, add the following section:
+
+ [sendemail]
+ sendmailcmd = mutt -H - && true
+
+ And then, patch mutt(1) to enable encryption in batch and mailx
+ modes, which is disabled in upstream mutt(1). You can find a
+ patch here:
+ <https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/merge_requests/173>.
+
Patches
If you know how to fix a problem in a manual page (if not, see
"Reporting bugs" below), then send a patch in an email.
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