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Merge pull request #45 from com-pas/github-setting
Added description about DCO Check and email addresses.
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We are using GitHub for hosting our Git repositories. GitHub is being used for creating issues and creating Pull
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Requests to review / merge each other's code.
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#### GitHub User Settings
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We noticed that there are sometimes problems with the DCO Check. This can be caused by an email setting of the user.
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It's about keeping the email address private.
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Go to Settings of your account and select the option `Emails`. Here you will find the setting `Keep my email addresses
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private`. Uncheck this setting. When checked there are cases that the DCO Check will fail, because the `github.com`
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email address is used in the Web interface. When failing it will cause a lot of work to fix it.
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### LFX Security Tool
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For checking potential security issues, we use the [LFX Security Tool](https://security.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/#/a092M00001IkJTLQA3/overview).
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The LFX Security Tool scans selected repositories for potential security issues in dependencies.

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