<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/04/2013 02:55, Scott Kitterman wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:1740358c-c030-404f-8ff9-d3968caa4032@email.android.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Robert Ian Hawdon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ian.hawdon@gmail.com"><ian.hawdon@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nicholas.skaggs@canonical.com">nicholas.skaggs@canonical.com</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nicholas.skaggs@canonical.com"><mailto:nicholas.skaggs@canonical.com></a>> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">part </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:steve.langasek@ubuntu.com"><steve.langasek@ubuntu.com></a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:steve.langasek@ubuntu.com"><mailto:steve.langasek@ubuntu.com></a> To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com"><mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com></a> Dear developers, Recent bug reports suggest that the Ubuntu installer for Windows, </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Wubi, is </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> not currently in very good shape for a release: 13.04 installer doesn't create user account <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1155704">https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1155704</a> Wubi fails to detect 12.04.2 and 13.04 AMD64 ISO <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1134770">https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1134770</a> Combined with the fact that Wubi has not been updated to work </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">with Windows 8 </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> (bug #1125604), and the focus on mobile client over desktop, the </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Foundations </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> 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, </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">starting </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> immediately with the upcoming Beta. This will save our testers </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">from </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> spending their time testing an image that will not have </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">developers working </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> on fixing the bugs they find, and spares our users from using an </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">image for </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> 13.04 that is not up to Ubuntu's standards of quality. If someone is interested in taking over the maintenance of Wubi </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">so that it </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> can be released with 13.04 (or if not with 13.04, then with a </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">future </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> release), I would encourage them to start by looking at the </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">abovementioned </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> bugs and preparing patches, then talking to the release team. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">a Free OS </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">the world. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Ubuntu Developer </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.debian.org/">http://www.debian.org/</a> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:slangasek@ubuntu.com">slangasek@ubuntu.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:slangasek@ubuntu.com"><mailto:slangasek@ubuntu.com></a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vorlon@debian.org">vorlon@debian.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vorlon@debian.org"><mailto:vorlon@debian.org></a> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com"><mailto:Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com></a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality</a> </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> It's real. Scott K </pre> </blockquote> 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. </body> </html>