Sorry for top-posting, but it's a quick one.

Abbreviations causes confusion.
If you are going to write a huge email anyways, please take the time to
write out the words properly.

Your communication would be a lot more clear, and you might get your point
across more effectively.

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 at 17:18, Eric <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the U.S, a common abbreviation is w/ for "with" and w/o for "without".
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023, 9:42 AM Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I, for one, have never heard of using “w” as “without”. W much, much
>> commonly means “with”.
>>
>> > On Nov 22, 2023, at 9:31 AM, Björn Bidar <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > 
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > I fully agree with that statement. The automated checks can only go so
>> > far.
>> > Of course there are cases where the package has been out of date for
>> > longer, however even in such cases the packager might have forgotten to
>> > update the package after he got the request or there was an issue on
>> > their side.
>> > E.g. on case I did an update but forgot to push it.
>> >
>> > I also noticed that more users use out-of-date flags as a way to bug the
>> > maintainer of a package for attention.
>> >
>> > I had a package teams-for-linux-wbunbled-electron that was simply
>> > deleted/merged after such a request because the author of the request
>> > didn't understood what w as in without means.
>> >
>> > I would favor that before a request is send the user should try to send
>> > a comment or request simply shouldn't be automatically accepted before
>> > the user has time to reply e.g. after at least a week to reply.
>> > Sometimes it feels like users except that there is an update at day 1.
>> >
>> > Br,
>> >
>> > Björn
>>
>

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