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MATE Tasks

This wiki page was created to track progress on the MATE Desktop packages; anyone if free to help with the pending tasks. Takers please pick a task you like and submit it.

For the inclusion of MATE Desktop in Fedora a general purpose Tracker Bug was created on BZ, if you want to take a task please take a quick look to it also BZ#840149.

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Contributions to MATE Desktop
Anyone willing to provide a fix, patch or any other improvement for the MATE Desktop packages please go to #fedora-mate on FreeNode and ask for help on how to get started...


Packages for review

The following list provides information on the packages currently waiting for review on BZ:

Packages for testing

The following list provides information on the packages currently in testing and requiring testing and positive Karma to enter production:

  • none


Package updates (point releases)

The following list provides (inacurate?) information about potential updates from upstream that need to be done:

Packages needing to be packaged

The following list provides information on the packages currently waiting to be packaged:

  • none

Others

This list contains miscellaneous tasks in queue:

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Things to Decide
  • mate-settings-daemon and mate-media - use gstreamer or pulseaudio? Before 1.8 we need to pick one as default
  • Decide how to drop packages, currently:
    • libmate - dropped upstream
    • libmatecomponent - dropped upstream
    • libmatecomponentui - dropped upstream
    • libmatecanvas - dropped upstream
    • mate-conf - dropped upstream
    • mate-conf-editor - dropped upstream
    • mate-corba - dropped upstream
    • mate-text-editor - dropped upstream
    • mate-vfs - dropped upstream

Useful information: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life