For the benefit of debian-custom, which I have just CC'd because my rather limited audience on the debtags and jr lists is being mighty quiet about this topic, I'll bring you up to speed on what the following is about.
This month, I've put some effort into planning to use debtags to classify Debian Jr. software. The junior-* metapackages, which I think are flawed in a number of ways, could be totally replaced with a debtags-based package selection method. The package names themselves are already expressed in existing non-junior-specific debtags to differentiate between, say, arcade games and tools for writing. Debian Jr.'s own classification would then be focused on two basic aspects: 1. what's in the core of Debian Jr. vs. what's extra 2. what ages the software appeals to I had previously proposed: On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 15:43 -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Re-reading the debtags doc, it occurs to me that early is not mutually > exclusive with core & extra, so it doesn't belong here. Perhaps what we > really need is: > > junior::priority::core > junior::priority::extra I'm wondering if other CDDs may wish to do something similar. If so, it would be useful to have a "cdd::" aspect to differentiate between different groups of packages within the cdd. Thus, dropping 'priority' because I don't think it adds much, we might tag every package in Debian Jr. with: cdd::junior::core cdd::junior::extra > and > > junior::level::early > (though we'd need some more levels in there to make a complete category) I had previously expressed a desire to stay away from grade-specific and age-specific language, but after searching for alternative language and coming up empty, I'm resigned now to using age ranges as the best way to express this idea of "level". Also, I don't think this classification belongs in "junior::". It's an aspect of the software itself, not of the Debian jr. project, even though the Debian jr. project will take a hand in supplying these tags. I think the top-level aspect should be "audience::" (as in MARC audience level) and we need to further differentiate between "interest age" and other possible subclassifications (e.g. "reading grade" in a school system) that, although not currently interesting to Debian Jr., might be interesting to other Debian developers and users (e.g. debian-edu, which I have just added to the CC). These age ranges are roughly based on Piaget's stages of cognitive development. I gave up on names to describe these age ranges, because there simply aren't any clearly-defined and widely used terms in the English language for each age range. audience::interest-age::0to2 (sensorimotor stage: keyboard-bangers, etc) audience::interest-age::2to4 (early preoperational thought: simple toys, short attention span) audience::interest-age::4to7 (later preoperational thought: more creative toys/games, longer attention span) audience::interest-age::7to11 (concrete operations: more emphasis on reading, more complex UI) audience::interest-age::11to15 (formal operations: requires abstract thinking) audience::interest-age::adult Comments? Suggestions? Rotten tomatoes? Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
