MATE Tasks

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.

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:

• BZ#882559 - Review: mate-file-manager-image-converter
• BZ#882561 - Review: mate-bluetooth
• BZ#885409 - Review: mate-applets
• BZ#877167 - Review: matefaenza-icon-theme

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:

• http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.5/mate-media-1.5.1.tar.xz -- DONE -Dan

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:

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