- more about the _The Developer's Certificate of Origin_ [here (chapter 11)](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches)
-
-**Exceptions**: documentation fixes or updates do not need much explanation so
-sticking to the above rules is not necessary. Github pull requests are OK.
+ more about the
+ [The Developer's Certificate of Origin (chapter 11)](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin)
+ * if you are not used to the signed-off style, your contributions won't be
+ rejected just because of it's missing, the _Author:_ tag will be added as a
+ substitute in order to allow contributions without much bothering with
+ formalities
+
+Documentation updates
+---------------------
+
+Documentation fixes or updates do not need much explanation so sticking to the
+code rules in the previous section is not necessary. Github pull requests are
+OK, patches could be sent to me directly and not required to be also in the
+mailinglist. Pointing out typos via IRC also works, although might get
+accidentally lost in the noise.