Change DCO examples to use real world ones

Pull-request: #768 (reference)

Signed-off-by: William Desportes <williamdes@wdes.fr>

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index e3197efe1f..3663809932 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Please report [bugs on GitHub][1].
 ## Patches submission
 
 Patches are welcome as [pull requests on GitHub][2].  Please include a
-Signed-off-by tag in the commit message (you can do this by passing `--signoff`
+Signed-off-by tag in the commit message (you can do this by passing [`--signoff`][4]
 parameter to Git). 
 
 When creating the commit on GitHub or using some other tool which does not have
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ direct support for this, it is the same as adding
 `Signed-off-by: Your name <email@example.com>`
 as the last line of the commit message.
 
+Example: `Signed-off-by: Jane Smith <jane.smith@example.org>`
+
 Note that by submitting patches with the Signed-off-by tag, you are giving
 permission to license the patch as GPLv2-or-later.  See [the DCO file][3] for
 details.
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ details.
 
 [2]: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/pulls
 [3]: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/blob/master/DCO
+[4]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit.txt---signoff
 
 ## More information
 
diff --git a/DCO b/DCO
index 49b75da9b7..824c724d25 100644
--- a/DCO
+++ b/DCO
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
 And please confirm your certification to the above by adding the following
 line to your patch:
 
-	Signed-off-by: Jane Developer <jane@example.org>
+	Signed-off-by: Jane Smith <jane.smith@example.org>
 
 using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions).