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 <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> 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 Of course there are cases where the package has been out of date for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 I also noticed that more users use out-of-date flags as a way to bug the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