On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:15:10PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/7/23 Meike Reichle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi all, > > > > I agree with Christian that putting something like this in the dev guide > > is probably overkill and wouldn't do us much good. If a user objects to > > playing a male character rescuing a female one I'd consider that an > > upstream bug rather than a Debian issue. So, getting back to magicmaze, > > I guess I'd simply send a feature request to upstream. > > BTW, as an strategic matter of fact it is unneeded to say that if > someone decides to ask upstream to add that feature, what I encourage > to do, do it politely and with positive arguments, and avoid > accusations of any kind: it works better. Kinda "Would it be possible > tho let the player choose the gender of their character? That way, > female players would identify themselves better with the character and > the game might be more attractive for them" instead of "Your game is > sexist, you have to make it gender neutral", which of course would put > the developers on the defensive side and would do more harm than good. > I just thought it would do no damage to mention it, although it's > quite obvious.
"Our priority is our users" might have originally been "Our priority is our male users", not that I think Dev's did it intentionally. So any attempt to add a 'wishlist' feature in a way that makes our software more inclusive of 'all' of our users, sounds like a great suggestion. And anything that does not 'heat the coffee of the cabal' aka invoke flamewars is a good approach. I did not mean to single-out magicmaze, it was just something that crossed my view and sparked the idea. So thanks for the great feedback. Could a suggestion to: "make your software more inclusive of different users based upon gender, race, etc. when possible" sound too forcefull? -Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
