Hi, On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 05:15:02PM +0100, Rick Spencer wrote: > Separating the wubi.exe experience from the ISOs will give us the following > important benefits: > > 1. We will be able to do maintenance and enhancements to wubi outside of > the Ubuntu development cycle. > 2. Significant reduciton of QA work for an already over-streched QA team. > 3. Better overall 12.04 quality, and less stress at release time. > 4. We won't get stuck with a poor (or worse) user experience on the CD > since is a good chance that wubi will not work properly with Windows 8. > > I am proposing these changes to the plan because: > > 1. The key use case for wubi is being able to download and run the > installer on Windows, not installing from the ISO. > 2. Wubi is difficult to test, so has been difficult to assure that it will > meet the quality standards we have set for 12.04. > 3. There are no developers treating wubi as their top priorities. This > combined with the QA difficulties has historically caused late breaking > changes that add stress at release time and frequentily invalidate already > executed ISO testing. > 4. Most significantly, Windows is changing it's boot system with Windows > 8, and it's not clear how wubi will work with Windows 8, if at all.
How much space is reclaimed on the ISO with the removal of Wubi? -Kees -- Kees Cook -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
