Mir Had A Wild Year From Nearly Being Killed Alongside Unity 8 To Growing With Wayland

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mir Had A Wild Year From Nearly Being Killed Alongside Unity 8 To Growing With Wayland

It was a heck of a year for Ubuntu's Mir display server from it starting off as the display server to the now-abandoned Unity 8 desktop and it surviving Canonical's cancelling of the Unity/convergence projects to now not only being fitted for IoT use-cases but gaining Wayland support with hopes some will use it as a Wayland compositor. This also went from Mir 1.0 nearly being released and back to the drawing board to Canonical now hiring more Mir developers and adding Mir to other Linux distributions: what a wild ride 2017 has been for this controversial project...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-Wild-2017

[ElectricPrism]

So in other words what did we learn?

The community thinks Canonical's projects are a worthwhile cause but not strictly under their supervision or to suit their agenda.

Unity developed independent of Canonical sounds like it could be a very cool thing.

[andre30correia]

time to canonical give up from the disaster called Gnome and back to unity 7 until unity 8 desktop is ready

[starshipeleven]

So in other words what did we learn?

That Mir should be a Wayland compositor. Took them what, 5 years to get the memo?

[boxie]

That Mir should be a Wayland compositor. Took them what, 5 years to get the memo?

They tried a thing, it didn't work and its shambling corpse will live on - so be it. Hopefully they have learnt the main lesson here about interaction with the open source community

[DanL]

They should rename it to drop the perception baggage from the original Mir design.

[ElectricPrism]

They should rename it to drop the perception baggage from the original Mir design.

That would be intelligent and wise socially.

Call it "Mirror" lol

[starshipeleven]

They tried a thing, it didn't work and its shambling corpse will live on - so be it. Hopefully they have learnt the main lesson here about strategic product architectural decisions

fixed.

Really, here the main issue is that they went the full NIH route without the $$$ support to actually pull it off alone. Which is a management issue.

[starshipeleven]

They should rename it to drop the perception baggage from the original Mir design.

Afaik there isn't much "perception baggage" to speak of, and changing names is a soooo Corporate (tm) tactic...

[DanL]

Afaik there isn't much "perception baggage" to speak of

There's certainly a lot of negativity here on Phoronix. How much that relates to more sane environments is debatable.