Intention to drop Wubi from 13.04 release

[Istimsak Abdulbasir]

Sorry to hear this. Lets hope someone shows a kind heart and pickup
maintenance on this installer image.


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Nicholas Skaggs <
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:

>  I wanted to make sure folks saw this message from the foundations team
> on ubuntu-devel. Wubi has been dropped and won't ship as part of 13.04. I
> want to thank all the wubi testers who helped by reporting bugs and finding
> odd problems with wubi during testing events in the past. Thanks to you all
> there are known bug reports for the issues, which allows for developers to
> potentially adopt wubi and get it back into a releasable state. Thanks,
>
> Nicholas
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: Intention to drop Wubi from
> 13.04 release  Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 12:59:35 -0700  From: Steve Langasek
> <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>  To:
> ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> Dear developers,
>
> Recent bug reports suggest that the Ubuntu installer for Windows, Wubi, is
> not currently in very good shape for a release:
>
>   13.04 installer doesn't create user account
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1155704
>
>   Wubi fails to detect 12.04.2 and 13.04 AMD64 ISO
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1134770
>
>
> Combined with the fact that Wubi has not been updated to work with Windows 8
> (bug #1125604), and the focus on mobile client over desktop, the Foundations
> team does not expect Wubi to be in a releasable state for 13.04.
>
> I am therefore proposing to drop Wubi from the 13.04 release, starting
> immediately with the upcoming Beta.  This will save our testers from
> spending their time testing an image that will not have developers working
> on fixing the bugs they find, and spares our users from using an image for
> 13.04 that is not up to Ubuntu's standards of quality.
>
> If someone is interested in taking over the maintenance of Wubi so that it
> can be released with 13.04 (or if not with 13.04, then with a future
> release), I would encourage them to start by looking at the abovementioned
> bugs and preparing patches, then talking to the release team.
>
> Thanks,
> --
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> Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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