On 05/29/2009 06:48 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Dennis J. (dennisml@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