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 > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > 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 <[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > 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/ > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-quality mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality > > > > -- Robert Ian Hawdon http://robertianhawdon.me.uk/ Most of my emails are signed with a PGP signature. For more information, please visit http://robertianhawdon.me.uk/pgp/
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