On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 09:24 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > Hello > > 2011/12/9 Eric Smith <e...@brouhaha.com>: > > I've submitted review requests for the first two packages for the MATE > > desktop environment, mate-doc-utils and mate-corba. MATE is a fork of > > GNOME 2. I expect that it will take me a few months to package the > > remaining MATE packages. > > Mate is unmaintained (e.g. "maintained" by unqualified enough) and > doesn't attract any significant interest from the community except few > blog-posts from newcomers and distrohoppers who underestimate the > necessary amount of work required to fork Gnome. Thus I believe this > could be no more than a constant source of troubles. I'd rather help > others with transition to Gnome3, as some active members of our local > community (Russian Fedora) does.
Is Mint providing any backing to it? I know they shipped it in their latest release, but don't know anything beyond that. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
