The DCO policy used here appears to have been derived from the Linux
kernel's guidance. In 2023, that guidance changed to relax the "real
name" requirement to a "known identity".
The DCO sign-off identifies the person certifying that they have the
right to submit a contribution. The previous wording required a "real
name" and rejected pseudonyms, which could discourage contributors
whose preferred or community name is the identity by which they can be
known.
The requirement is not anonymity: the identity in the sign-off must be
known enough for the project to follow up about the contribution if a
question arises. It does not require a legal name or a government-issued
identity. Use the clarified wording from the Linux kernel so known
pseudonyms and preferred names remain acceptable while anonymous
contributions remain excluded.
This also reflects concerns raised in the CNCF community about whether
"real name" means a legal name, a government-issued identity, or a
public identity that is sufficient to identify and contact a
contributor. The discussion emphasized that attribution and future
accountability do not require publishing a legal identity, and that
strict public-name rules can exclude people who cannot safely contribute
under that name.
Source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc035
Signed-off-by: Paweł Gronowski <pawel.gronowski@docker.com>
The commit guidelines are too vague and offer little guidance on
acceptable commit styles. This patch expands on what is acceptable
with some examples of what a commit is supposed to look like.
Signed-off-by: Alano Terblanche <18033717+Benehiko@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Christopher Petito <47751006+krissetto@users.noreply.github.com>
Removed broken link in #937
- How I did it
Removed first section of CONTRIBUTING.md
- How to verify it
Check CONTRIBUTING.md
- Description for the changelog
Removed broken link in contributing to Docker documentation.
A picture of a cute animal (not mandatory but encouraged)
Closes#937
Signed-off-by: achneerov <achneerov@gmail.com>
gofumpt provides a supserset of gofmt / go fmt, but not every developer may have
it installed, so for situations where it's not available, fall back to gofmt.
As our code has been formatted with gofumpt already, in most cases contributions
will follow those formatting rules, but in some cases there may be a difference,
which would already be flagged by manual code review, but let's also enable the
gofumpt linter.
With this change, `make fmt` will use gofumpt is available; gofumpt has been
added to the dev-container, so `make -f docker.Makefile fmt` will always use it.
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
Paweł Gronowski
Alano TerblancheandChristopher Petito
Dilep Dev
Grace Choi
achneerov
Riyaz Faizullabhoy