PRs from signers to a signing event: make the tool create the PR and use a custom template. This means root-signing-staging can include content in that template that e.g. pings the maintenance team to merge to the signing event theupdateframework/tuf-on-ci#209
Generic PR template:
Include something like "If you are trying to contribute to an existing signing event, something has gone wrong"
As well as "If you are trying to start a signing event for an artifact change, please push a branch prefixed with sign/ to upstream instead"
"sign/*"
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