Encourage descriptive PR titles

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@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ starting point is to send a pull request on GitHub. It can be simple enough to
illustrate your idea, and leave documentation/tests for later, after the idea
has been validated and proven useful. Alternatively, you can send an email to
`scrapy-users`_ to discuss your idea first.
When writing GitHub pull requests, try to keep titles short but descriptive.
E.g. For bug #411: "Scrapy hangs if an exception raises in start_requests"
prefer "Fix hanging when exception occurs in start_requests (#411)"
instead of "Fix for #411".
Complete titles make it easy to skim through the issue tracker.
Finally, try to keep aesthetic changes (:pep:`8` compliance, unused imports
removal, etc) in separate commits than functional changes. This will make pull