Looks like the core Mambo development team is splitting from the project....at the very least...the name will cgange.. http://www.opensourcematters.org/
The new project has been named Joomla! The new website is http://www.joomla.org The new version of the updated Joomla! (V 1.0.0 ) will be available for download sometime in September 2005, as per the road map released on the official website.
Several Mambo third party and add-on sites I looked at do not look happy, some were complaining about their access being cut off to Mambo http://www.mambodocman.com/ says they will follow the new split and not support any future versions of Mambo after 4.5.2.3 http://www.mambohut.com/ - is already talking about Joomla development.
This sucks! I've just tried Mambo and now I am pondering if I should go back to static pages. I don't want to end up using a CMS that will die in a few years. It would be a pain in the ars* to switch and re-learn new CMS.
Quick! Everybody go register Joomla templates dot com and Joomla dev, Joomla hackers and what not dot com.
You dont need to learn a new CMS. The old Mambo website will keep mambo, and the new Joomla will continue on the old Mambo. They made the old mambo (were the open source designers that helped building it) so support will still be there, on 2 different sources. I a few months from now they will probably be different, and you have to decide what road to follow, but support will be there.
I'm not concerned about that, I'm just evaluating which CMS to use. I just made sure not to download the absolute latest Mambo, but a slightly older one that will upgrade to Joomla should I decide to stick with it. I think the split actually give assurance that support will continue.
You are right, the split has started sort of a competetion between the two forks of Mambo now - the original mambo from Miro and the forked Joomla from OSM (Open SourceMatters)... Competetion IS good for the development of any software, especially if it is open source!