Despite the fact that Unity 8 will not exist, well neither Unity 8 nor any more versions of Unity 7, the basis of this desktop does continue. Canonical's graphical server, MIR, continues to develop, but this time, the development of MIR has other approaches or other priorities.
Recientemente Much of the work to make MIR compatible with Wayland has been completed, something interesting for the final developers. This objective is missing the final development that would allow to have the functions of copying, pasting, dragging, etc ...
But the Mir development team are asking for help and collaboration from the Ubuntu Community. It does not help to develop this Ubuntu related project but collaboration to know and know what objectives the MIR development team should set itself.
Until now, the team's priority was to develop the base for Unity 8, but now it is not feasible so it is looking for objectives and functions that can be applied to this graphical server.
The MIR server will be a modular graphics server
With this, the MIR developers propose an interesting project: a modular or molithic graphics server. In such a way that MIR may have more or fewer functions depending on the modules that we install or remove. Something that would not only solve many problems, but would allow programs that use X.Org or Wayland to work with emulators or emulation functions.
The survey prepared by the MIR development team on the new functions can be consulted from here. In it you can participate as well as see the interests of users about MIR and its development.
In any case, although the initiative is interesting and important, there is no doubt that the protagonist of this activity is the developer, which will be directly affected by the use or not of MIR or Wayland Don't you think so?