On 06/04/2013 02:55, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Robert Ian Hawdon <[email protected]> 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 >>> <[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 >>> >>> >>> >>> > 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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