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-------- 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]> To: [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] [email protected]
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