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, m...@gentoo.org, 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 Thanks!
