https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424577
Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> changed:
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--- Comment #5 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
Hello again. :)
In principle I like the idea. I share Nico's worry that this would be
subjective, but the even bigger problem is that having KDE host this project
would be a huge conflict of interest. KDE has a vast software library and we
would not seriously be able to rate our own software without the perception or
reality of preferential treatment.
For example KMail and our online accounts feature allow you to connect to
NextCloud as well as Google. Does the fact that we support Google amount to
"promotion" such that the software would merit a badge saying "This app
promotes non-free network services"? Depends how you define the word
"promotes". But because it's our software, we would have to make that judgment.
If we did not hit it with that badge, you know inevitably people would complain
that having Google support prominently offered in the UI does amount to
promotion and that we're privileging our own software by not rating it
accurately.
Even if we try our best to be perfectly objective, there is always an incentive
for us to be kinder to our own software, and this risk plus the public
perception of it would would undermine trust in KDE's ability to manage the
project. Ultimately this irresolvable conflict of interest makes me feel like
your proposal is a better fit for 3rd party hosting and management.
You seem pretty passionate about the idea; maybe you can work on it yourself in
a cross-desktop manner? Perhaps under the umbrella of the Free Software
Foundation or FreeDesktop.org? Then you could implement a data feed that we
could simply subscribe to in Discover and be passive consumers of the
information rather than active judges whose motivations may seem suspect to
users. That's what we do for AppStream metadata. This could potentially be a
crowdsourced extension to AppStream, or some other similar thing
However for the reason I gate--the conflict of interest--I don't think it's
either realistic or ethical to do this in KDE, sorry. :)
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