On 05/29/2009 06:48 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Dennis J. (dennisml(a)conversis.de) said:
>> At which point, you need some sort of review board, where then every
>> package gets something like:
>>
>> - TuxPaint is rated E for Everyone
>> - quake3 is rated T for violent content
>> - tcl is rated M for inappropriate language
>>
>> I'm going to go out on a limb and claim we don't have the resources to
>> coherently do this.
>
> I don't see why we would need a review board. Just add a guideline asking
> packagers to tag their packages if they think the contents could be
> inappropriate out of courtesy toward their fellow community members.
>
> If some packagers don't give a damn then that's fine and not a lot can be
> done about that but why not give the community the tools to self
> regulate?
>
> Just because there is a general guideline does not mean there has to be
> enforcement through an iron-fisted review board.
Without some sort of standards, the tags would likely become meaningless
to rely on in practice. (See also: the RPM Group tag.)
Then let the people who are affected with this come up with a proposal and
deal with it on it's technical merits. There is no enforcement involved. If
that proposal is too difficult/complex to implement it can be rejected. If
a packager is unwilling to put such a classification in his package then
it's up to the people concerned to work it out.
Regards,
Dennis