diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-and-deploy.yaml b/.github/workflows/test-and-deploy.yaml
index b261d174..5ea6a9de 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-and-deploy.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-and-deploy.yaml
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ on:
   pull_request:
     paths-ignore:
       - 'scripts/**'
+      - '**/README.md'
+      - 'CHANGELOG.md'
+      - 'LICENSE'
 
 jobs:
   deploy:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index faf508d0..b1264fca 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ after which the initially specified password is required for using them.
 
 ## Deploying your own chatmail server 
 
+To deploy chatmail on your own server, you must have set-up ssh authentication and need to use an ed25519 key, due to an [upstream bug in paramiko](https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/issues/2191). You also need to add your private key to the local ssh-agent, because you can't type in your password during deployment.
+
 We use `chat.example.org` as the chatmail domain in the following steps. 
 Please substitute it with your own domain.