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meta: add requirement for signed-off-by statements

Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge github/fork/jasnell/draft-signed-off-by into master

To improve handling of DCO compliance, the TSC is considering the need to make inclusion of Signed-off-by statements in every commit mandatory. The TSC is still working through the process changes necessary to make this as painless as possible but drafting the basic requirement is step one.

The Signed-off-by statement is an attestation that the commit is contributed in accordance to the DCO.

This is a draft PR for now while the @nodejs/tsc deliberates further.

/cc @nodejs/tsc

/cc @nodejs/automation ... If this moves forward, then node-core-utils will need to be updated to check for, and possibly automatically apply, the Signed-off-by statements when preparing PRs to land.

Checklist
  • make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes
  • documentation is changed or added
  • commit message follows commit guidelines

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