Add some advice on good PR titles (#24483)

* Add some advice on good PR titles

* Extra 'the'

Co-authored-by: Germain <germains@element.io>

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Co-authored-by: Germain <germains@element.io>
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@ -17,7 +17,14 @@ into our repo (https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/)
We use GitHub's pull request workflow to review the contribution, and either We use GitHub's pull request workflow to review the contribution, and either
ask you to make any refinements needed or merge it and make them ourselves. ask you to make any refinements needed or merge it and make them ourselves.
Things that should go into your PR description: Your PR should have a title that describes what change is being made. This
is used for the text in the Changelog entry by default (see below), so a good
title will tell a user succinctly what change is being made. "Fix bug where
cows had five legs" and, "Add support for miniature horses" are examples of good
titles. Don't include an issue number here: that belongs in the description.
Definitely don't use the GitHub default of "Update file.ts".
As for your PR description, it should include these things:
- References to any bugs fixed by the change (in GitHub's `Fixes` notation) - References to any bugs fixed by the change (in GitHub's `Fixes` notation)
- Describe the why and what is changing in the PR description so it's easy for - Describe the why and what is changing in the PR description so it's easy for