Sean Fennell <eadrom> wrote:
To the matter at hand, what is going to be the best way to get the MATE packages updated? What is my next step in that process? I'm eager to get my hands dirty helping out with maintaining MATE (and other packages as well).
Thank you,
Sean Fennell <eadrom>
I agree that it's not good that we ship an unmaintained desktop environment in our repos. DEs need constant work to be properly maintained (not just updating packages, but also fixing bugs, backporting fixes needed for new versions of libraries...) and unfortunately no current TU seems to be interested in MATE. If you plan to step up to maintain this in the future, one first step would be to post your updated PKGBUILDs somewhere so that we could check them out.