German ktouch lessons make users type violent, threatening text

[Christoph Feck]

On Friday 26 February 2016 00:37:49 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Natanji <natanji at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've just been made aware on Twitter [1] that the ktouch software
> > - part of the KDE Edu project - has a lesson in which users must
> > type the text "erledige die genannten sachen sonst haue ich dich
> > richtig lange durch". This roughly translates to "Do the named
> > things or I will punch you over a long period of time".
> > 
> > This is completely unacceptable.
> > 
> > KDE Edu is advertised as software for, among others, *children*.
> > The sentence can be contextualized as one that an abusive
> > parent/guardian/teacher might say to a child in order to get them
> > to work harder, and I'm sure KDE Edu doesn't want to do this.
> > 
> > I have no clue where else this can be reported quickly to make
> > sure sentences like these don't appear in the software anymore,
> > but I felt this mailing list was probably a good starting point
> > since you all probably share the goal of making KDE Edu software
> > actually appropriate for children. There should be an
> > investigation into making the training sentences of ktouch safe
> > and violence-free.
> > 
> > FYI, I'm not interested in other mailing list content, so I
> > haven't subsribed to the list - please put me into the CC if you
> > want to answer me. Looking forward to hearing from you.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Natanji
> > 
> > [1] https://twitter.com/NerdResa/status/702894227332710401
> 
> Hi Natanji,
> Thanks a lot for reporting this. I understand that you were shocked
> when you found it. So was I when I read your e-mail.
> 
> As you will understand we are a community-based project and we just
> have our small resources. It got resolved as soon as we were
> pointed to the issue, we can't fix what we don't know it's broken.
> If you like to help, you'll be more than welcome.

It is already fixed, see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127184/