Excluding it from the desktop for one release is killing it. A big chunk of ubuntu's repository is now broken, resulting in a big "fuck you" from the users (including me) and no more donations...
Even if they ship X and Mir, people will just use X.
Even if they ship X and Mir, people will just use X.
No, it is delaying it from being the default on Ubuntu by 6 months.
> A big chunk of ubuntu's repository is now broken
Really? How so? I have not noticed anything broken at all. How exactly is it broken?
> resulting in a big "fuck you" from the users
I really very much doubt most users will even notice, and I also think you severely overestimate how many of those who do notice will care, and how many of those who care who sees Mir as something negative and/or are bothered by the delay.
> Even if they ship X and Mir, people will just use X.
The point is they will eventually ship XMir, Mir and Mir-enabled toolkit versions by default, so everyone that don't take explicit steps to install a plain X server instead will be running Mir whether or not they run all their familiar apps - including X apps - on top of it.
Things are working OK. The world is not ending and Ubuntu repository is working just fine.
1. Noone will use Mir because xlib apps and non-ported toolkits will fail miserably.
2. It will not get tested properly.
3. Release+1 with XMir will be shipped and Mir will be turned on.
4. All hell will break loose.
If it doesn't happen, I'll cook and eat my laptop.
The only flag waving so far has been "shuttleworth installed it on his dell and it worked ok for a couple of weeks with some problems".
Shuttleworth probably knows how to keep his Dell working, and will possibly be sticking to LTS releases.
Then why use Mir? ducks