Fwd: Intention to drop Wubi from 13.04 release

[Nicholas Skaggs]

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.langasek at ubuntu.com>
To: 	ubuntu-devel at 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/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org



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