PHOENIX-7850 addendum (#2472)

Co-authored-by: Palash Chauhan <p.chauhan@pchauha-ltmgv47.internal.salesforce.com>

pom.xml

diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9eb87cd..97d497c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1915,6 +1915,8 @@
             <!-- tmp files -->
             <exclude>dev/work/**</exclude>
             <exclude>dev/artifacts/**</exclude>
+            <!-- GitHub templates -->
+            <exclude>.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE</exclude>
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>