Just now my RSS reader pops up a post at Ubuntu Planet, making it clear that compiz will come by default in Ubuntu 7.10, which is to be released in October. 

Travis Watkins (Amaranth)

Travis Watkins (born December 5, 1986) is an American computer programmer who worked with Cody Brocious and Jon Lech Johansen to create the Python program PyMusique. He is also the creator of Alacarte, a Freedesktop.org compliant menu editor.

Travis says:

"Wow, I haven’t posted anything here for awhile.

Anyway, in a Technical Board meeting yesterday it was decided that we will have Compiz enabled by default in Ubuntu 7.10, barring any obscene blowups before the beta. Woohoo! :) I spent a couple hours today going through all the bugs open against compiz in Ubuntu and most of them seem like small problems. Worst case scenario the person can’t get compiz working at all but that’s to be expected.

While I was going through the list of bugs I pointed out some of the more annoying yet simple looking ones to upstream and we’ve already got fixed for them in gutsy now. I’ve got about 12 bugs I’ll be dealing with in the next few days. About half of them are little configuration tweaks so that’s obviously not something for upstream. The rest are just an excuse to get back into the actual compiz/compiz-fusion code again. I’ve spent so much time dealing with users and packaging I haven’t had much time to actually write some code. We’ll see how it goes.

So, now is the time to file bugs if you have them. Don’t wait until after the beta (beta freeze is the 20th) to jump in and start complaining."

Ubuntu FTW!