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Surprisingly, the system of vendor provided ratings are now used by Freedesktop in their AppStream metadata[0] named OARS[1]. But it's a lot simpler that this c
by sp1rit 3y ago
Surprisingly, the system of vendor provided ratings are now used by Freedesktop in their AppStream metadata[0] named OARS[1]. But it's a lot simpler that this custom DSL that IE used for content rating.
[0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-content_rating https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Met...
[1]: https://hughsie.github.io/oars/ https://hughsie.github.io/oars/
- RunningDroid 3y agoNote that OARS is at risk of being abandoned¹ because people threatened to get the developer banned from GitHub² for giving app developers the ability to tag their app as having homosexual content (because said content is illegal in some countries.) ¹:https://github.com/hughsie/oars/issues/41#issuecomment-812142468 https://github.com/hughsie/oars/issues/41#issuecomment-81214... ²:https://github.com/hughsie/oars/issues/41#issuecomment-812076058 https://github.com/hughsie/oars/issues/41#issuecomment-81207...