On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 09:24 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
Hello
2011/12/9 Eric Smith <eric(a)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.
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