So when did Mate disappear? It would be so awesome if it went to qt.
The MATE edition was a community edition, not an official edition, and we dropped it a few months ago because there was no one willing to maintain it anymore.
The individual packages are all still in the repository, though.
That is a matter you have to pick up with the upstream developers. 
They have chosen gtk as their widget toolkit, because MATE is after all a forked continuation of GNOME 2.
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I disagree. Anyway that would require a huge amount of work, so they’re very unlikely to do that.
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I have a sugestion for a QT vesion of Mate, not sure who to email?
Best would be to contact the Linux Mint team - Contact Us - Linux Mint
But if you want Qt - I suggest LXQt … it was developed side by side with LXDE - the gtk version.
You can check this Manjaro spin-off SbK LXQt 25.0.0.1
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He asked about upstream developers, not a downstream distribution. 
See: Team | MATE
@Edward78 Note that I merged your new topic here. No, it won’t be reopened. I think you have enough answers now, eh?
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