Announcing Edubuntu 13.04

[Jonathan Carter]

Hi Bruno

On 30/04/2013 13:37, Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> I am disapointed to see that GCompris has not been updated on Ubuntu
> since 12.01.
>
> The GCompris development team made a major release at the end of last
> year named 12.11. It includes about 10 new outstanding activities that
> were developped by students during a Google Summer of Code. You can see
> the release notes here:
> http://gcompris.net/Release-12-10
>
> This is sad Ubuntu users won't have an easy way to access this work
> despite the fact that I am developping on Ubuntu. Windows and MacOSX
> users have fun with this version since last november.

Thanks for the feedback!

GCompris is a great software package that we certainly value. We had 
some big parts that we worked on building up to the 14.04 release goals, 
so we did a community call for the packaging parts for this release: 
http://edubuntu.org/2012-11-23/13.03-call-for-packaging-help

A few people did respond who were interested, but life happened and it 
didn't quite work out.

I still think it's worth while having the latest GCompris available for 
both 12.04 and 13.04 users in a PPA. Since it's early on in the 13.10 
release, we'll make a point of having it updated!

Since the new Debian release is out, I'll at least poke the debian 
maintainer too, perhaps we could do it right and do it in Debian, that 
way all the other Debian derivatives will get it too.

-Jonathan