14 DAY TRIAL // The proposal made last week, for the upcoming Fedora 21 distro to implement the Wayland display server by default, has been accepted by the developers.
Wayland is still under heavy development, but the Fedora developers have been talking for a long time about the adoption of Wayland as the default display server, especially now that GNOME Shell and Mutter will be able to act as compositors.
“This change is targeted at F21. For F20, we aim for having an experimental GNOME shell Wayland compositor available, without necessarily having all the surrounding desktop infrastructure ported. To avoid destabilizing the X compositor, mutter will ship two separate libraries, and gnome-shell will ship two binaries that will link against them. Concretely, we plan to have a separate mutter-wayland package,” stated the original proposal made on the official wiki.
In the latest Fedora meeting, the developers discussed a series of proposals, including the implementation of Wayland, which they have approved along with a number of other smaller changes.
Given the fact the Fedora ships with GNOME as the default desktop environment, it's easy to assume that getting Wayland adopted is not actually a stretch for them. Now, if only the GNOME devs were ready with the Wayland implementation by the time the next 3.14 version is released, then we can really be certain.