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 <!-- General PR guidelines:
+Thanks for taking the time to contribute to this project!
 
-Most PRs should be opened against the main branch.
+When submitting a pull request, please be sure to use the --signoff
+flag for your commits. If you haven't done this already, you can
+amend your most recent commit with "git commit --amend --signoff".
 
- -->
+If your change fixes an existing problem, please add a close hook
+to your commit message. For example, if your PR fixes issue #280
+include the following in the description:
 
+  Fixes: https://github.com/cloudevents/sdk-javascript/issues/280
+ -->
 ## Proposed Changes
 
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 ## Description
-- Fixes Issue #
-- Version: