[Sugar-devel] Parental controls (UPDATE)

[Walter Bender]

Ryan,

To add to what Gonzalo has said, while parental controls may not be
acceptable upstream, there is also nothing to prevent you from
offering them as a patch that can be selectively applied downstream.
That said, I think others on the thread have pointed out some of the
technical challenges you face in developing a robust solution.

FWIW, I think the best parental control is a parent.

regards.

-walter

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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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>
>
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> Gonzalo Odiard
>
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