Where to make feature requests for the Ubuntu MATE Team

I want to remove the Ubuntu MATE Welcome program, this is not useful as this is a single user installation. And no new or guest users will use the computer.

Solution 1:

I'm pretty sure the best place to take your request is the Ubuntu MATE community forum, specifically the feedback thread. There are a lot of feature requests there.

Meanwhile, you know you can tell Welcome not to open by unchecking the box bottom right of it Open Welcome when I Log On:

You'll never see it again :)

Don't try to remove it with apt though:

$ sudo apt remove ubuntu-mate-welcome -s
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  ubuntu-mate-desktop ubuntu-mate-welcome
        ^^^

Solution 2:

Asking how to achieve something in MATE - like disabling a feature - should be done at the forum, but since your title has "feature requests", I thought I'd address that for future readers. Definitely do NOT ask for new features, or improvements on current features, in the general Support & Help Requests section of the forum - your pleas will fall on deaf ears, because it's simply not the place to post development requests (it's a user help forum, after all). There is a Development Discussion section at the community forum, as well as Thoughts & Feedback, but since the developers may not even be looking there, I would suggest the project's Launchpad page, and their GitHub one, too. You will often see requests in Thoughts & Feedback being answered with "please file this feature request at GitHub", so it's worth having an account there if you want to get active in making the distribution better.