Intention to drop Wubi from 13.04 release

[Scott Kitterman]

Robert Ian Hawdon <ian.hawdon at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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It's real. 

Scott K