Adding contribution guidelines to user guide, including new Developer's Certificate of Origin

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@@ -115,6 +115,34 @@ at the same time, we might really want X but disagree with Y, meaning we
 cannot merge the request. Using the Git-Flow branching model you can create
 new branches for both of these features and send two requests.
 
+Signing
+=======
+You must sign your work, certifying that you either wrote the work or
+otherwise have the right to pass it on to an open source project. git makes
+this trivial as you merely have to use `--signoff` on your commits to your
+CodeIgniter fork.
+
+::
+
+	git commit --signoff
+
+or simply::
+
+	git commit -s
+
+This will sign your commits with the information setup in your git config, e.g.
+
+	Signed-off-by: John Q Public <john.public@example.com>
+
+If you are using Tower there is a "Sign-Off" checkbox in the commit window. You 
+could even alias git commit to use the -s flag so you don’t have to think about 
+it.
+
+By signing your work in this manner, you certify to a "Developer's Certificate 
+or Origin". The current version of this certificate is in the `DCO.txt` file
+in the root of this repository.
+
+
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