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+Thank you for submitting a pull request for Pinniped!
+
+Before submitting, please see the guidelines in doc/contributing.md in this repo.
+
+Please note that a project maintainer will need to review and approve the PR
+to cause CI tests to automatically start.
+
+Reminder: Did you remember to run all the tests described in doc/contributing.md
+on your branch before submitting this PR?
+
+Below is a template to help you describe your PR.
+
+-- Please delete this line and all lines above this line before submitting the PR. Thanks! --
+
+**Summary of the changes included in this PR**
+
+**Issue(s) addressed by this PR**
+- Fixes #
+
+**Things to consider while reviewing this PR**
+
+**Suggested release note for the first release which contains this PR**
+```
+release-note here
+```