Premature closure of PRs

[David Southwell]

> I want to understand why bug reports get closed prematurely and without any
> discussion with the original person submitting the report.
> 
> For example I submitted PR today in connection with a bug I originally
> reported to both the ports and the python lists last week. When there was
>  no immediate fix I then submitted a PR this morning at was submitted:
> 
> Tue Sep 15 08:10:02 UTC 2009
> 
> It was closed 8 minutes later without further query:
> 
> Closed-Date:  Tue Sep 15 08:18:07 UTC 2009
> 
> Despite the fact there had been a posting on both the ports and python
>  lists by James Chang which was distributed to the lists at
> 
> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:48:37 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> I then attempted to Submit a Follow up to include Chang's report only to
>  find that the PR had been prematurely closed simply because the maintainer
>  assumed that as he could not  replicate it the report must be unfounded.
> 
> Last-Modified:  Tue Sep 15 08:18:07 UTC 2009
> 
> Can we please have the system modified so that reports are not closed until
> the submitter has had an opportunity to review the reasons and comment.
> 
> Lastly How does one get a closed PR re-opened?
> 
> Yrs frustrated
> David Southwell
ps the PR link is:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=138835
(ports/138835: Python compile failure)
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