German ktouch lessons make users type violent, threatening text

[Natanji]

Great, many thanks! That was incredibly fast.

Am 26.02.2016 um 02:33 schrieb 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/