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Maintenance: add disclaimer to PR template to clarify that PRs need to be linked to a triaged issue #1350

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According to the contributing guidelines, each PR should correspond to an issue that has been previously triaged by one of the maintainers. Triaging an issue means acknowledging its importance, defining a scope, and setting a priority. All these are ingredients for a successful PR as oftentimes a mismatch on one of these points can cause friction between maintainers and contributors.

This issue serves to track the action item of adding to the pull request template a disclaimer that clarifies this point.

Why is this needed?

To properly manage expectations with contributors around the fact that PRs that are not linked to a triaged PR and that have not been agreed upon with a maintainer might not get attention from the maintainers.

Which area does this relate to?

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Solution

Add a line at the end of the PR body that reads:

Disclaimer: We value your time and bandwidth. As such, any pull requests created on non-triaged issues might not be successful.

This is also the same wording that the Python repository has.

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