[Sugar-devel] Parental controls (UPDATE)

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Hi Ryan,
We have a features process [1] to try get consensus before start to work,
and avoid the risk of expending time and effort in features not accepted by
the community.
Parental controls are a controversial topic, and go against all the
philosophy of Sugar.
In the end, to have a completely "sure" experience, you need to remove more
and more possibilities,
and practically is not the right solution.
You can't stop children going to porn sites if they want, creating a
blaklist one by one in the xos.
You will add playboy.com and there are a million of sites more to go.
I think will be very difficult we accept this feature, but I hope that do
not stop you contributing.
In the future, please share your ideas, follow the schedule, and write your
feature page[2].
This is not something arbitrary, you can see other features developed in
0.102 [3]
Regards,

Gonzalo

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Feature_Template
[3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Feature_List



On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Ryan Cunningham <rvskmbrly3 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Not only am I basing this on the inclusion of a similar feature in OS X, I
> am also basing this on the fact that some Nigerian children reportedly
> visited a Web site containing pornography. I have no other evidence.
>
> --
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Apr 23, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> > ryan wrote:
> >> The releases with this feature would at least include Sugar 0.104
> onward.
> >>
> >> What inspired me to create this feature is that Mac OS X has a
> >> similar feature.  (This feature, other than that inspiration, has
> >> nothing to do with OS X.)
> >>
> >> In creating this feature, I am considering that the user would be a
> >> child using an XO or Sugar on a Stick at home and not as part of a
> >> deployment.  Deployments are free to use or remove this feature at
> >
> > have you observed an actual need for this feature?  or are you surmising
> > that such a need exists, based on apple's featureset?
> >
> > paul
> > =---------------------
> > paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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Gonzalo Odiard

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