Intention to drop Wubi from 13.04 release

[Fabio Marconi]

On 06/04/2013 02:55, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 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
>
I've tested it and is really buggy, better suspend it's shipment waiting
for a desirable good release.
Is riducolous to propose a promotional tool that won't work and can
create problems to non expert users.
+1 for the difficult decision.

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