[keithpeter]

"I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS."

I checked the date of the post really carefully as well. That is certainly a change of direction.

[houst0n_]

I guess unity was the only thing driving Mir then? Is dropping one the same as dropping both?

Seems like good news to me, having a significant player like canonical contributing to the community instead of fragmenting without much benefit can't be bad can it?

I don't use it on the desktop anyway, but I hope that moves in this direction are rewarded by the community.

[keithpeter]

My (limited) understanding is that Gnome includes Wayland as an integral component, and so reverting to Gnome as default desktop for 18.04 will preclude use of the Mir graphical server.

[snuxoll]

Also, one of the "selling points" of Mir was its ability to use Android drivers to make OEM adoption of Ubuntu Phone relatively easy.

If they're ditching mobile, there's literally no real benefit to Mir.