Ensure PR description follows a template when potential breaking changes are made

.github/workflows/breaking_change_pr_template.md

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+**Detailed Description**
+[In-depth description of the changes made to the interfaces, specifying new fields, removed fields, or modified data structures]
+
+**Impact Analysis**
+- **Backward Compatibility**: [Analysis of backward compatibility]
+- **Forward Compatibility**: [Analysis of forward compatibility]
+
+**Testing Plan**
+- **Unit Tests**: [Do we have unit test covering the change?]
+- **Persistence Tests**: [If the change is related to a data type which is persisted, do we have persistence tests covering the change?]
+- **Integration Tests**: [Do we have integration test covering the change?]
+- **Compatibility Tests**: [Have we done tests to test the backward and forward compatibility?]
+
+**Rollout Plan**
+- What is the rollout plan?
+- Does the order of deployment matter?
+- Is it safe to rollback? Does the order of rollback matter?
+- Is there a kill switch to mitigate the impact immediately?

.github/workflows/breaking_change_reminder.yml

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+name: Workflow for Breaking Change Reminder
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      # below files do not cover all the exposed types/funcs, but it's a good start to detect potentially breaking changes
+      - activity/activity.go
+      - client/client.go
+      - encoded/encoded.go
+      - interceptors/workflow_interceptor.go
+      - internal/activity.go
+      - internal/client.go
+      - internal/encoded.go
+      - internal/workflow.go
+      - internal/interceptors.go
+      - internal/worker.go
+      - internal/workflow.go
+      - worker/worker.go
+      - workflow/*.go
+
+jobs:
+  breaking-change-pr-template-reminder:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0
+
+    - name: Fail if PR description is missing breaking change template
+      if: steps.pr-changes.outputs.changes != '[]'
+      run: |
+        PR_NUMBER=${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+        PR_URL="https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/pulls/${PR_NUMBER}"
+        BODY=$(curl $PR_URL | jq '.body')
+        CHECKLIST=(
+          "Detailed Description"
+          "Impact Analysis"
+          "Testing Plan"
+          "Rollout Plan"
+        )
+        TEMPLATE=$(cat .github/workflows/breaking_change_pr_template.md)
+
+        for i in "${CHECKLIST[@]}"; do
+            if [[ "$BODY" == *"$i"* ]]; then
+                continue
+            else
+                echo "Potential breaking changes detected! Please update the PR description to include following template:"
+                echo "---"
+                echo "$TEMPLATE"
+                echo "---"
+                exit 1
+            fi
+        done