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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by mhall119 on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:50PM (#14005626)
> - HEADLINE: Drop Mir & collaborate with Wayland

That would more accurately be:

- HEADLINE: Port Unity 8 to be a Wayland compositor

This would be at least a multi-year effort. Consider how much time and effort went into porting Gnome Shell and KWin over to Wayland. It would be at least as much work do the same with Unity 8.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by bronson on Friday March 31, 2017 @01:20PM (#14005950)
Finishing Mir is also a multi-year effort. So, where would the programmer-hours best be spent?
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by mr_overalls on Friday March 31, 2017 @01:37PM (#14006104)
Exactly. Let's avoid the sunk-cost fallacy.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by mhall119 on Friday March 31, 2017 @03:18PM (#14007193)
Sorry if I wan't clear, the point was that it wouldn't be possible to do in time for 17.10, which is what the original post was asking about.
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