Documentation for GPG signing and DCO signature

[hendrikebbers]

🆕🐥 First Timers Only

This issue is reserved for people who have never contributed to Hiero or any open source project in general.
We know that creating a pull request (PR) is a major barrier for new contributors.
The goal of this issue and all other issues labeled by 'Good First Issue' is to help you make your first contribution to Hiero.

👾 Description of the issue

There are two technical constraints that every commit needs to fit to be merged in a project within Hiero:

• Each commit must be GPG signed
• The author of each commit must sign the DCO

We need documentation of those two constraints to make it more accessible for newcomers to contribute to Hiero. Here, the documentation does not need to contain complete technical documentation. It is OK to link to other documentation like the one from GitHub. It would be great to have documentation for solving all that on the command line and samples of how it can be done in IDEs like IntelliJ or VSCode.

Some good links for the topics:

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/dco
• https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/managing-commit-signature-verification/signing-commits
• https://github.com/hashgraph/hedera-json-rpc-relay/pull/3107#issuecomment-2417123980

📋 Step by step guide to do a contribution

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• Solve the issue in your branch.
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[guido-marx]

Hi, ich würde ihn gerne bearbeiten

[exploreriii]

I think this is completed, proposal to close