Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes: > Russ Allbery: >> It sounds like a whole ton of work to get a useful amount of coverage (not >> to mention bothering upstreams with questionnaires that I suspect many of >> them would find irritating -- I certainly would with my upstream hat on), >> and I'm not clear on the benefit. Do you have some reason to believe that >> this is a common request by users of Debian? If so, could you share with >> us why you believe that? > I'm discussing about CRS inspired from Google Play. Do Google Play not pay IARC for this? I would assume that there is a fee that covers IARC's costs in running the service, which is then paid out of the profit that Google makes on the games. What is it going to cost us to get 'bison' rated PG? Why is this useful? Also, it seems clear to me that the same game in all Linux disros is very likely to get the same rating, so this would be better done as a distribution agnostic level, preferably by someone that makes a profit from games or content anyway. For instance, I'd imagine that Steam have some sort of rating mechanism, which might even use IARC already, so one might be able to achieve this aim by talking to them about getting access to their system somehow, and perhaps getting them to include things in their database that they don't actually distribute themselves. One might imagine that one could buy a subscription to their rating database, say. Alternatively, parents who are interested might simply decide to subscribe to Steam if Steam provided a package that allowed subscribers to see the ratings for packages they were about to install. (I'm only saying Steam here because they've been quite Debian friendly AFAIK, but there's nothing stopping anyone else offering such ratings as a service to Debian users). Asking Debian to do it seems like it's just asking for trouble -- what happens when a child is traumatised by content that most people find completely innocuous in a package we've not yet got round to rating? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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