[Python-apps-team] Bug#956939: ITP: timekpr-next -- Keep control of computer usage

Fri Apr 17 03:21:24 BST 2020

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Anthony Fok <foka at debian.org>

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* Package name    : timekpr-next
  Version         : 0.2.13
  Upstream Author : Eduards Bezverhijs <edzis at inbox.lv>
* URL             : http://launchpad.net/timekpr-next/
* License         : GPL-3
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Keep control of computer usage

 Timekpr-nExT is a program that tracks and controls the computer usage
 of your user accounts.  You can limit their daily usage based on
 a timed access duration and configure periods of day when they can
 or cannot log in.
 .
 Any bugs should be reported to our bug tracker:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/timekpr-next/+bugs

Reason for packaging:

Being a parent of several young kids, now especially stuck at home
due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I have been searching for quite some time
some kind of parental control software to limit their screen time
in Linux.  Today, I was lucky to come across this wiki entry:

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Parental_control

where Timekpr-nExT is the first on the list.

Timekpr-nExT is also featured in the following November 2019 article:

    https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/11/timekpr-next-is-linux-parental-control.html

Timekpr-nExT has been living as an Ubuntu PPA for some years
thanks to upstream author who also maintains the Debian packaging,
and end user Sim asks for to have it officially packaged for Debian
to get "massive exposure in BOTH Debian AND Ubuntu communities":

    https://answers.launchpad.net/timekpr-next/+question/685282

Sim also further points out that:

    I was looking for years for an effective program that can limit
    the time kids spend on computer.  And there is absolutely nothing
    like this within 59000 current Debian packages.

    I'm sure thousands of teachers/parents worldwide are desperately
    looking for something like this.  Arguing with children each time
    you want them to stop using computer is too exhausting...

and I admit I am in the same boat myself, so here we are!  :-)

Since this is a Python 3 application, I intend to maintain it within
the Python Applications Packaging Team.