FreeBSD Port: x11/mate

[Koop Mast]

On Sat, 2017-05-20 at 23:32 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Planetoid 128 <planetoid128 at gmail.c
> om>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hey man,look before I start my problems I mean to you no offence,so
> > the
> > mate version 1.18 was realesed and we are still on 1.12,so can you
> > upgrade
> > it please.
> > 
> > Koop is pretty much single-handedly maintaining all Gnome ports.
> > This
> totals over a hundred ports. He recently updated a large number of
> the base
> ports on which Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate, and applications for all of
> them
> depend. I'm sure that he would really appreciate help, but until he
> gets
> it, I imagine that Gnome will e the first priority, Cinnamon second,
> and
> Mate bringing up- the rear. As a Mate user, I'd love to see Mate get
> more
> attention, but it is beyond my limited coding skills and I'm pretty
> sure
> that Gnome and Cinnamon are most popular.

Hi,

Like Kevin said, currently working on updating the Gtk+ / GNOME stacks
to the latest where ever possible. But MATE isn't forgotten, Eric
Turgeon has been doing a good job of submitting pull requests and we
got a mate-1.18 branch in our development repo. When the gnome work
slows down I will start looking at MATE.

Cinnamon is looking for volenteers, these ports are old. If someone is
interested in helping, I'm more then happy to make a branch in our
development repo where you can base you work off.

-Koop

> I know he is aware of the status of Mate and, now that the base ports
> (mostly libraries) are updated, I am hoping for an update.
> 
> Support is almost all from volunteers. The foundation only hires
> people ot
> work on the most critical and complex issues and if nobody with the
> capability can dedicate the time, it simply does not happen.