diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ to the maintainers team. If a maintainer is inactive for more than 3
 months and forgets to leave the maintainers team, the owners may move
 him or her from the maintainers team to the advisors team.
 For security reasons, Maintainers should use 2FA for theirs accounts and
-provide gpg signed commits. 
+if possible provide gpg signed commits. 
 https://help.github.com/articles/securing-your-account-with-two-factor-authentication-2fa/
 https://help.github.com/articles/signing-commits-with-gpg/