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Advise triagers to be careful with severity labels

Dan Jensen requested to merge djensen-severity-labels-should-have-high-confidence into master

Why is this change being made?

Under-estimating severity in triage can have extremely negative consequences. This adds a note in the triage guide to advise triagers to seek domain expert support when unsure of which severity label to apply to a bug issue.

This MR was motivated by a discussion in an issue.

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