Intention to drop Wubi from 13.04 release

[Robert Ian Hawdon]

I'm dubious just by the fact that original message was sent on 1st
April. Bad day to announce something big imo ;-)

On 06/04/13 00:56, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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>
>     <mailto:steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>
>     To: 	ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>     <mailto: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,
>     -- 
>     Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
>     Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
>     Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
>     slangasek at ubuntu.com <mailto:slangasek at ubuntu.com>                                     vorlon at debian.org <mailto:vorlon at debian.org>
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