This is to announce that finally all MATE Desktop 1.18 components have landed in Debian testing (aka buster).
Credits
Again a big thanks to the packaging team (esp. Vangelis Mouhtsis and Martin Wimpress, but also to Jeremy Bicha for constant advice and Aron Xu for joining the Debian+Ubuntu MATE Packaging Team and merging all the Ubuntu zesty and artful branches back to master).
Fully Available on all Debian-supported Architectures
The very special thing about this MATE 1.18 release for Debian is that MATE is now available on all Debian hardware architectures. See "Buildd" column on our DDPO overview page [1]. Thanks to all the people from the Debian porters realm for providing feedback to my porting questions.
References
We are proud to announce that 16 students have been accepted to work on improving Debian this summer through the
Google Summer of Code! This is great news, following our 15 accepted students in 2012, and 9 accepted students in 2011.
Here is the list of accepted students and projects:
If you're interested in one of the projects, please follow the links and talk directly to the students or the mentors, or come hang out with us on
IRC.
Welcome everyone, and let's make sure we all have an amazing summer!
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