Slightly off topic, but might be of interest to people using Mate on CentOS 7 from EPEL ...
I've just had a comment added to a open Bugzilla report I have with Mate from EPEL, where the current EPEL/Mate maintainer (Wolfgang Ulbrich <fedora at raveit.de>) just states:
New maintainer is wanted for MATE epel7 repo!
(it looks like he has added this comment to all open EPEL/Mate BZ's)
So I guess if anyone is interested in taking over as EPEL/Mate maintainer - then contact fedora at raveit.de ...
James Pearson