gnaughty is a hot babe

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri May 29 16:48:12 UTC 2009


Dennis J. (dennisml at 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.)

Bill




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