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 <!-- Thank you for submitting a pull request! Find more information in our development guide at https://github.com/trinodb/trino/blob/master/.github/DEVELOPMENT.md and contact us on #dev in Slack. -->
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+<!-- Provide an overview of the PR for maintainers and reviewers. -->
 ## Description
 
-<!-- Elaborate beyond the title of the PR as necessary to help the reviewers and maintainers.-->
-
-<!-- Answer the following questions to help reviewers and maintainers
-understand this PR's scope at a glance:
--->
-
-> Is this change a fix, improvement, new feature, refactoring, or other?
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-> Is this a change to the core query engine, a connector, client library, or the SPI interfaces? (be specific)
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-> How would you describe this change to a non-technical end user or system administrator?
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-## Related issues, pull requests, and links
 
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-* Fixes #issuenumber
-* Related documentation in #issuenumber
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-<!-- The following sections are filled in by the maintainer with input from the contributor:
-Use :white_check_mark: or (x) to signal selection.
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+<!-- Provide a user-friendly explanation, keep it brief if it isn't user-visible. -->
+## Non-technical explanation
 
-## Documentation
 
-( ) No documentation is needed.
-( ) Sufficient documentation is included in this PR.
-( ) Documentation PR is available with #prnumber.
-( ) Documentation issue #issuenumber is filed, and can be handled later.
 
+<!-- Mark the appropriate option with an (x). Propose a release note if you can. -->
 ## Release notes
 
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+( ) Release notes are required, please propose a release note for me.
+( ) Release notes are required, with the following suggested text:
 
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