Tracker for applications missing OARS information

[andrunko]

The following applications seem to be missing OARS information:

• https://github.com/flathub/com.chez.GrafX2
• https://github.com/flathub/com.github.libresprite.LibreSprite
• https://github.com/flathub/com.lettier.movie-monad
• https://github.com/flathub/com.remarkable.reMarkable
• https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code.oss
• https://github.com/flathub/fr.free.Homebank
• https://github.com/flathub/io.ark.Desktop
• https://github.com/flathub/io.github.cloose.CuteMarkEd
• https://github.com/flathub/io.github.guillaumechereau.Goxel
• https://github.com/flathub/io.github.wereturtle.ghostwriter
• https://github.com/flathub/io.gitlab.osslugaru.Lugaru
• https://github.com/flathub/io.howl.Editor
• https://github.com/flathub/net.olofson.KoboDeluxe
• https://github.com/flathub/net.sourceforge.btanks
• https://github.com/flathub/net.sourceforge.mars-game
• https://github.com/flathub/org.freecol.FreeCol
• https://github.com/flathub/org.freedesktop.GstDebugViewer
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.dolphin
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kalzium
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kapman
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.katomic
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kblocks
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kbruch
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kdiamond
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kgoldrunner
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.khangman
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kigo
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.killbots
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kjumpingcube
• https://github.com/flathub/org.mapeditor.Tiled
• https://github.com/flathub/org.seul.pingus
• https://github.com/flathub/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare
• https://github.com/flathub/org.tuxfamily.XMoto
• https://github.com/flathub/org.xiphos.Xiphos

[brendanlong]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm one of the maintainers of FeedReader, which already has this info. My question is if there's any guidance about how to handle browser-like apps. FeedReader itself has no advertising or adult content, but you could easily subscribe to gambling, porn and ad-heavy RSS feeds. I'm asking because I can find a generator but I can't actually find a spec for what the OARS options are.

Also, I went through the generator and it seems strange that it asked me about a lot of things but didn't ask about adult content. It seems like a weird thing not to include in content rating since it's probably the #1 thing most parents want.

[barthalion]

I think that assumption is that you have no control over external content that can be loaded by your application, so technically it does not "ship" ads or gambling.

[wjt]

I agree that some special handling for browser-esque apps is needed, and that the generator should ask authors of non-game applications some (if not all) of the content questions. Tickets opened about both.

[SISheogorath]

As I just checked: Darktable has a content rating already.

[wjt]

Here's a script to check which apps are outstanding: https://gist.github.com/wjt/9fc2230bdb4705413d5fa59b276d135a

Here is the complete list according to that script:

• https://github.com/flathub/com.chez.GrafX2
• https://github.com/flathub/com.github.libresprite.LibreSprite
• https://github.com/flathub/com.lettier.movie-monad
• https://github.com/flathub/com.remarkable.reMarkable
• https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code.oss
• https://github.com/flathub/fr.free.Homebank
• https://github.com/flathub/io.ark.Desktop
• https://github.com/flathub/io.github.cloose.CuteMarkEd
• https://github.com/flathub/io.github.guillaumechereau.Goxel
• https://github.com/flathub/io.github.wereturtle.ghostwriter
• https://github.com/flathub/io.gitlab.osslugaru.Lugaru
• https://github.com/flathub/io.howl.Editor
• https://github.com/flathub/net.olofson.KoboDeluxe
• https://github.com/flathub/net.sourceforge.btanks
• https://github.com/flathub/net.sourceforge.mars-game
• https://github.com/flathub/org.freecol.FreeCol
• https://github.com/flathub/org.freedesktop.GstDebugViewer
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.dolphin
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kalzium
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kapman
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.katomic
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kblocks
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kbruch
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kdiamond
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kgoldrunner
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.khangman
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kigo
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.killbots
• https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kjumpingcube
• https://github.com/flathub/org.mapeditor.Tiled
• https://github.com/flathub/org.seul.pingus
• https://github.com/flathub/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare
• https://github.com/flathub/org.tuxfamily.XMoto
• https://github.com/flathub/org.xiphos.Xiphos

Perhaps @andrunko or a Flathub admin could update the issue description accordingly?

Or, since this is now enforced by the Flathub build infrastructure for app updates, perhaps instead we could file these 34 issues and resolve this?

[bilelmoussaoui]

@wjt I have updated the issue list, thanks! I also noticed that a lot of these apps have a common pattern, they are shipping a flathub.json with a "skip-appstream-check": true we should probably open an issue on all of these to get a fixed/updated appdata for these apps as well

[razzeee]

I've just ran that script from @bilelmoussaoui

And it only returned these

• https://github.com/flathub/com.lettier.movie-monad
• https://github.com/flathub/io.ark.Desktop
• https://github.com/flathub/io.gitlab.osslugaru.Lugaru
• https://github.com/flathub/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare

[hfiguiere]

if memory server SparkleShare has issues with the dotnet/mono runtime.

[hfiguiere]

Movie monad use Haskell (ghc) which mean that the knowledge gap is gigantic.

[hfiguiere]

For Lugaru the OARS is 1.0. Is that the problem?

[razzeee]

Thx, lugaru now shows OARS fine in gnome software

[hfiguiere]

seems that gnome-software doesn't like oars-1.0

[bbhtt]

This is caught by validation. Let's close this.

#1081 (comment) everything unchecked here is not being maintained anymore.

skip-appstream-check no longer exists for any actual applications.