add README note aobut OA guide

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 |powered|   -   **cookiecutter branch:** |ci cookiecutter|
 
+Pending Deprecation Warning
+---------------------------
+This template is in the process of being subsumed by the 
+`OpenAstronomy packaging guide <https://github.com/OpenAstronomy/packaging-guide>`__,
+which reflects more up-to-date Python packaging techniques than this template. In 
+the future this template will be replaced by a guide built from the OA guide specific
+to Astropy, but in the mine time, if you are starting a new project you may wish to
+start from the OA guide.
+
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
 This is a package template provided by the Astropy project.
 
 Using this template, packages can make use of the setup, installation, and documentation