Robert Ian Hawdon <ian.haw...@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.ska...@canonical.com ><mailto:nicholas.ska...@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.langa...@ubuntu.com> >> <mailto:steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> >> To: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com >> <mailto:ubuntu-de...@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/ >> slanga...@ubuntu.com <mailto:slanga...@ubuntu.com> > vor...@debian.org <mailto:vor...@debian.org> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-quality mailing list >> Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com >> <mailto:Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality >> >> >> >>
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