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What Really Happened with Mambo?

Posted by Hemos on from the to-every-season dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "What Happened with Mambo? There is a good article about the recent events that resulted in a changing of the guard at Mambo. Jem Matzan does his best to objectively debunk what happened. It looks like much research was conducted to produce this article and it is very informative. Check it out!" In the interest of full disclosure as well, our corporate parent also hosts Joomlaforge.

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  1. article slashdotted -- here's a copy by User+956 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a link to the google cached version of the page. Google Cache.

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    1. Re:article slashdotted -- here's a copy by edgr · · Score: 5, Informative

      And here is that same google cache link without the annoying highlighting on every second word.

  2. It got surpassed by Salsa in the next year? by Pac · · Score: 4, Funny

    All these tropical music styles seem to follow a cycle of sudden, quick popularity, quick fall back into oblivion as a new, hotter style is "discovered" and then a revival every other decade. Mambo wouldn't be different.

  3. correction by molnarcs · · Score: 5, Insightful
    If you're using Mambo currently, do you need to switch to Joomla? The answer is no, as far as my research for this article shows.

    Hmmm... You don't have to do much research to see that the future lies with Joomla. Basically the entire development team - the same team that made mambo great - left and they are working on Joomla now. How safe is to stay with a product that has "we are looking for developers" on their website for months? Especially since joomla! offers a clear migration path... Basically the first release is latest mambo with trademarks stripped out, so the sooner one switches the better...

    If we compare the "roadmap" of the two projects, joomla has a clearer vision of the future, so yeah, I don't think mambo is a safe bet from what I've seen.

    1. Re:correction by n00tz · · Score: 5, Informative

      and if that isn't good enough you can go try it and others out over at Open Source CMS. This was my method for determining what CMS I'd be using for various projects. It is a _GREAT_ resource.

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  4. Anonymous? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hmm. Why is Shawn Carey, who posts news items to the official Mambo website labelled as Anonymous Coward when submitting this story? Hover over the link, that's his email address. A bit suspicious that an interested party is submitting stories as Anonymous Coward, don't you think?

    1. Re:Anonymous? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yeah, because it couldn't possibly be someone else. Don't you think it's even more suspicious that someone write their name as Anonymous Coward and then enter an easily identifiable email address - especially as you don't need to fill in any email to submit news to Slashdot?

      Nah, what am I thinking. You've obviosuly uncovered a great conspiracy. =)

  5. Obscure Simpsons Reference: by Ruff_ilb · · Score: 4, Funny

    At the Samba School:
    The Penetrada: It makes sex look like church.

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  6. Totally bogus by augustz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Basically, the actual developers who developed Mambo all left.

    And for some pretty good reasons. The bylaws of the non-profit foundation were the craziest I've seen (and I used to review bylaws). Clearly designed to lock in control at the top for Miro.

    I've been around a long time, and some of the mambo and mambo foundation stunts are huge red-flags for a nonprofit.

    I bet when we dig below the surface of the article, we'll find that the submitter (who is shawn@uberdev.com) has a vested interest in this?

    Also, tend to beleive the code talks and talk walks. Curious to know how many core developers stayed with Mambo.

    And to be honest I like the feel of the Joomla community a bit better, from ducking into both sets of forums. Don't run either package however.

  7. Ego by saterdaies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The whole situation can be sumarized as:

    Miro started Mambo. They did the original work, they got the ball rolling and so they believed that they were entitled to be in charge.

    Some of the Mambo community developers did a lot of work on Mambo and, arguably, Mambo wouldn't be here today without them. While they didn't start it, they saw their contributions are paramount and they thought they were entitled to be in charge.

    Mostly, it's a battle of ego. Anyone who reads the Joomla! website can see that it's a battle of ego. They tried to claim that it was a renaming, that they were the real Mambo, that they were better than Mambo, etc. Frankly, which one is the "real" Mambo is a philosophical question that I think is stupid, but it's easy to see that this is an ego fight between two camps who both have legitimate claims to leadership of the project.