This is interesting idea and point of view. However unless I get to know the codebase I will not drop the idea of resurrecting existing Unity project.
On the other hand GNOME evolves very quickly and I am afraid that keeping Unity as a set of GNOME plugins up to date with GNOME can be a comparatively difficult task.
I am honestly very excited with resurrecting abandoned project even if it would be the most difficult way. I just like challenges 
Hi guys, daily driving Ubuntu Unity pretty much since itās initial release.
Just wanted to mention that Unity8 aka Lomiri is already in active development and aiming to replace Unity7 for 26.04 LTS.
As 26.04 is a LTS release we decided itās not an option to switch to another DE as of yet. We love to colaborate with UBports however to build a separate Ubuntu Lomiri spin in the very near future. Think 26.10 for example. We then have enough time to test and develop things further.
Though development on Lomiri has made great progress, the majority of us agreed itās not ready yet to replace Unity7. Butā¦ we are keeping it open as a option to replace Unity7 with Lomiri eventually at some point if thereās no other option left. We do not turn it down in any way and love to embrace it. 
Besides that the topic was meant to ask for help and for more people to join in helping us to get Unity7 back into shape for the 26.04 LTS release.
Now I understand the direction. I joined UBPorts so I can work on the HUD and lenses but unfortunately the infrastructure has not been made very welcoming to contributors thus I have been stuck with not being able to have a reproducible environment.
I suppose the same issue will be present with unity 7 and will be a pressing one. Making it straight-forward and well documented how to get started and set up the environment. Coming from a more or less a single developer at the helm(Rudra) I think itās critical to open the knowledge process and have the core team as a facilitator of the onboarding process for new contributors.
are you in the lomiri telegram group? that should be a good place to start, that said lomiri is offtopic for this uh topic. The goal is here is to find help to fix up unity 7 so we can bridge over to whatever the future may hold
yes, we are still working on understanding the process ourselves for ubuntu unity, things seem scattered atm
@mar1n3r0 if youād like to continue talking about Lomiri with us i think itās better to open a new topic about it so we could continue there.
@all In general:
I donāt want to sound blunt but there have been a few distracting post made already instead of focusing on what the topic was intended for in the first place.
We would really appreciate it if we stay ontopic from here onward. If you are willing to help us out, please leave a reply and weāll get back to all of you as soon as we have all the info we need to point the way. Thanks in advance
aight so now we have new topic, iād like to reiterate what we think unity8/lomiri will need to replace unity 7ās:
From feedback iāve gathered so far:
These are pointd i could gather feedback on, but donāt consider this list to be comprehensive. Instead see this from this perspective, anything that replaces unity should have a minimal impact on the user experience. People chose ubuntu unity instead of xfce or kde customized to look like unity for a reason.
to keep track of this iāve created an tracking issue: https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/ubuntu-unity-issues/-/issues/128
as more gaps are discovered and/or closed, weāll update that list