On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 5:13 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > For over a year I've been asking application authors upstream to add > support for the OARS content rating scheme for any apps that are > tagged as games. This means we can show some advisory text (note: no > apps are ever hidden) in the details panel on each game we show in the > software center. This helps parents to make a decision on what > applications are suitable to install for their children. It also > allows distros to choose what applications are going to be featured > depending on the locale they are aimed for. Different countries have > different cultural sensitivities and we want to use this information > to better suggest applications in the software center. > > I've asked a lot of upstream authors to add this information, and the > response has been generally positive. I am aware, however, that quite > a few games are no longer "active" upstream and thus the AppData file > is shipped downstream in Fedora. This is where I need some help. > > Adding the content rating is really simple. Simply visit > https://odrs.gnome.org/oars and answer the 21 multiple choice > questions, then paste the generated XML into the downstream AppData > file. The next time we regenerate the AppStream metadata your app will > have an age rating that depend on your current locale and country. If > you ship your application as a flatpak the metadata update is pretty > much instant. > So... As upstream for one of those games (Lugaru), I had completely forgotten about OARS when I was designing the metainfo file for it. Since you reminded me with this thread, I went ahead and added the data upstream, and backported it back to the "lugaru" package in Fedora. There are now updates submitted to Bodhi for EPEL7, F24, F25, and F26 that update the package to include that data. > > I'm not sure filing bugs against these packages is going to be super > popular, but I'm wondering if adding the requirement of content_rating > to the package guidelines might be a good first step? Comments > welcome. Thanks! > You should talk to the Fedora Games SIG about that. It is probably appropriate to add specific guidelines about it, but it may also equally be appropriate to have a tracker bug and mass bug filing for it. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
