You mean this one:
It was closed by moderators. Actually, I wanted to see the sources of that misinformation.
The major part of the development is concentrated around the MATE Desktop itself. I think, Ubuntu MATE as a distro is already shaped now, and a lot of work is automated. It will provide a stable MATE desktop on top of the Ubuntu package base and, being the Ubuntu flavour, will accept decisions made by Canonical. It may sound boring or not exciting anymore.