MATE desktop environment (GNOME 2 fork)

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 12/09/2011 09:20 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Would anyone like to see the MATE desktop environment as an official 
> feature of Fedora 17 or Fedora 18?

Sure but is MATE actively developed and does it have more than one
developer?  I am worried about sustainability.

Rahul