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Fantastic news guys, I thank you for such an amazing framework! I have been along for the ride for a few years now and look forward to contributing in the future :)

Cheers;
Poncho

Hi Matt,

I signed up to Mingle2 ages ago and loved it. I was disappointed when it was closed in favour of JustSayHi, but that is the way of things. The problem is a lot of profiles are still active: http://www.mingle2.com/users/view/601
Is there any chance they could be taken offline?

Cheers;
Poncho

Thanks guys,

You have truly made my life so much easier with cakePHP, no more 3rd party template engines, DB abstraction libraries etc. with glue code. I remember checking out the original release by Michal Tatarynowicz and thinking it was the most exciting thing in the world of PHP (a view I hold to this day).

Thank you again, and I have no doubt CakePHP will continue to lead the framework pack for the foreseeable future :)

Cheers;
Poncho

@ Mariano,

I didn't mean to insult or be disrespectful to the developers. I apologise to those developers if my remarks were taken that way.

I respect and love the open source spirit and donate to any projects I utilise in my work, either by suggesting it to my employer or personally.

Using Mambo years back was a really big help for me when I started doing database-driven sites, which is why I am showing concern now. I loved the project and was really disappointed with Miro for trying to regain control of the project.

@Chad,

Players like Miro and Mambo Communities which many people harbored old feels of dislike for no longer have any official involvement with the project.
That is what I was worried about and it's good to know that you guys see Cake as the new core of Mambo 5.0. I will have a look around the source of Mambo 4.6.x, I was very familiar with 4.0.x / 4.5.x way back so I'll no doubt notice what has changed.

Finally, I echo the message of welcome to the Mambo team.

Cheers;
Poncho

Hello Poncho,

Mambo is a project handled by the Mambo Foundation, a non profit foundation that guaranteed that Mambo allways is Open Source, Mambo allways had the GPL License v2.0, take a look to http://mambo-foundation.org
Thanks Andres,

I am familiar with Mambo as I built a few fairly large sites with Mambo 4.5.2 a few years back (http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=24386) and made my tableless components available to whoever wanted them.

As you will see from news sources at the time(http://news.com.com/Open-source+Mambo+project+faces+rift/2100-7344_3-5841347.html) , the Mambo Foundation forced the entire development team to fork the project to maintain community involvement.

From my point of view, Mambo has been "coasting", only releasing two point updates in three years while the original development team's Joomla has been actively re-architected into the newly released 1.5 RC1 continuing on the original goals of the Mambo 5.0 roadmap.

I don't mean to point fingers or harbour ill feelings towards the Mambo team, but I hope things have changed from the Mambo / Joomla! fiasco.

I hope the embracing of CakePHP as the core of Mambo takes the project on a new and distinct path. It has the potential to become a real driving force Open Source CMS.

Cheers;
Poncho