> Reopening my closed PRs does not work.

Yeah. It could be. But that was also "foreseen" - the instructions explain
how to handle that situation - push branch with a new name and open the PR
again. Which also gives an opportunity to write a good human summary and
review it before opening - using GH UI.

J;


On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 1:08 AM Yuseok Jo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jarek,
>
> Thanks for driving this. I agree with the direction, and the guide makes
> the next steps clear.
>
> One thing others may hit too. Reopening my closed PRs does not work. The
> CLI fails, and the Reopen button is not shown in the web UI, even though
> I'm under the limit and the branches are unchanged. My guess is that GitHub
> does not let an author without write access reopen a PR closed by someone
> with write access, which would affect everyone in the one-time closure.
>
> Thanks,
> Yuseok
>
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 5:56 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > A quick update: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/73469 is
> > merged, and the limits are now in place. Contributors without write
> > access can have at most 5 open PRs at a time. Committers are not
> > affected.
> >
> > I've also run the one-time closure
> > (dev/close_prs_over_open_pr_limit.py). The results:
> >
> > * 210 PRs closed, from 21 contributors. The largest counts were 31,
> > 26, 24 and 21 PRs from a single contributor. Most of the rest had 13
> > or fewer, typically around 5-10.
> > * Most of them were recent: 110 opened in September, 63 in August.
> > * PRs where a maintainer was already engaged stayed open.
> > * Every closed PR has a comment explaining why, with a link to the
> > guide (contributing-docs/32_open_pull_request_limit.rst). Each also
> > has the "closed because of open PR limit" label, so they are easy to
> > find:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22closed+because+of+open+PR+limit%22
> >
> > If a contributor asks about a closed PR, please point them to the
> > guide. It explains how to choose which PRs to reopen, up to the limit.
> >
> > J.
> >
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