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include some text for programming tools #27

Open cbm755 opened 5 years ago

cbm755 commented 5 years ago

If the application being rated is a programming language or programming environment, then users could implement their own "Online Text-only Messaging" and similar things asked under "Social".

Our interpretation for GNU Octave is that the answer is None in this case.
We think the question means "as provided by the application out-of-the-box."

Would it be useful to have some text in the webapp to help developers from bumping into this?

"If your game/application allows users to write their own scripts or code, then these questions would typically pertain to the out-of-the-box experience. For example, if a game does not provide Online Audio and Video Messaging, but has an embedded Python console that could theoretically be used by end-users to implement video chat, the answer is probably None."

hughsie commented 5 years ago

We think the question means "as provided by the application out-of-the-box."

I agree. I also think it's unlikely an embedded console would be used to implement a chat application, as you can take this to the extreme and argue that any app written in python or lua or shell could be rewritten to implement a chat function. I think the out-of-the box question is generic in all cases (i.e. you could use libreoffice-calc to draw porn, but it's unlikely) although I think maybe we should clarify things in the generic case.