github: small improvements pull request template
-# Purpose
+## Basics
-Describe the purpose of the pull request.
-Long descriptions should be in documentation and not here.
+Do not describe the purpose here but:
-# Checklist
+- [ ] Short descriptions should be in the release notes (added as entry in
+ doc/news/_preparation_next_release.md which contains `*(my name)*`)
+ **Please always add something to the the release notes.**
+- [ ] Longer descriptions should be in documentation or in design decisions.
+- [ ] Describe details of how you changed the code in commit messages
+ (first line should have `module: short statement` syntax)
+- [ ] References to issues, e.g. `close #X`, should be in the commit messages.
-Check relevant points but please do not remove entries.
-For docu fixes, spell checking, and similar nothing
-needs to be checked.
+## Checklist
+
+Check relevant points but **please do not remove entries**.
+For docu fixes, spell checking, and similar none of these points below
+need to be checked.
-- [ ] commit messages are fine ("module: short statement" syntax and refer to issues)
- [ ] I added unit tests
- [ ] I ran all tests locally and everything went fine
- [ ] affected documentation is fixed
- [ ] I added code comments, logging, and assertions (see doc/CODING.md)
- [ ] meta data is updated (e.g. README.md of plugins)
-- [ ] release notes are updated (doc/news/_preparation_next_release.md)
+
+## Review
+
+Remove the line below and add the "work in progress" label if you do
+not want the PR to be reviewed:
@markus2330 please review my pull request
