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CONTRIBUTING: discourage Conventional Commits in favor of scope (#6630)

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I recently came across this blog post which has put into words how I
felt about Conventional Commits for a while. Let’s reference it.
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@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ Here are a few examples for illustration:
* Use the `next` branch for developing and sending your pull request.
* Use `clang-format` to format your code.
* Run the [testsuite](https://i3wm.org/docs/testsuite.html)
* When giving your commit a title, do not use Conventional Commits (“refactor: …”),
instead prefix the commit with the scope of what it changes (“pointer warping: …”):
https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/
* If your changes should be reported on the next release's changelog, also
add a small single-line file starting with a number (see examples) containing
a short explanation of your change either in the