On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 21:50 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El jue, 02-07-2015 a las 15:40 -0400, NP-Hardass escribió:
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > Looking for some feedback on creating a new project and herd for the
> > MATE Desktop environment. The goal, like many other DE based
> > projects,
> > is to provide up to date packaging and as complete an offering of the
> > DE's packages as possible.
> >
> > Currently, the packages of the MATE Desktop DE are listed as
> > maintained
> > by TomWij (who is on long term devaway). Prior to acceptance into
> > the
> > Gentoo repo, it was worked on by lxnay and steev. All 3 have either
> > not responded to inquiries, or have expressed limited interest in
> > maintaining the DE. As a result, I felt the best way to support
> > users
> > was to move support of MATE away from any individual, and create a
> > project and associated herd to manage the packages, thus allowing any
> > developer that is interested in helping out an easy means of doing
> > so.
> >
> > I've created a prospective Wiki project page:
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:MATE and intend to have a mail
> > alias, [email protected], and an email channel for Gentoo support and
> > development, #gentoo-mate.
> >
> > Any feedback regarding the aforementioned would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > NP-Hardass
>
>
> I fully agree and I hope that helps with current MATE maintenance that
> is a bit stalled due to Tomwij devaway
Had a look at gentoo-mate repo and it seems it has stalled?
Jocke
