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Mar 20, 2008 at 12:47 AM |
History of Mambo
In the late 1990's an Australian company, Miro, identified a market for people to be able to easily publish content on the Internet without being caught up in the need to understand the technology. As a result, Mambo was born and by 2000 Miro was using Mambo to build web sites.
In April 2001, Miro releases "Mambo SiteServer" under the GNU General Public License, version 2. Mambo's menu and icon-driven administrator interface was revolutionary amongst web applications at that time.
The Mambo proprietary content management system was also still being actively developed. Miro did not use any code contributed to Mambo open source in Mambo CMS or any of its commercial products although there were obvious similarities in the structure as a result of the two applications coming from the same codebase.
Timeline:
Core Development Team Leaders:
Mambo SiteServer
2001
- From April 2001 to mid 2002, Miro is the only developer of Mambo and contributes bug-fixes and security patches. There is little development of feature sets.
- Mambo SiteServer reaches version 3.0
Miro
From mid-2002, development of the open source Mambo CMS steps up.
Mambo Open Source
2002
- Miro is contacted by Robert Castley who is eventually appointed as project director mid 2002.
- With version 3.0.x, the open source Mambo SiteServer becomes "Mambo Open Source" (commonly referred to as "MOS").
- At the end of 2002, Mambo Open Source 4.0 is released.
2003
- December, 2003: release of Mambo Open Source 4.5.
2004
- Linux Format awards Mambo “Best Free Software Project” of the Year.
- April 2004: Linux User and Developer names it “Best Linux or Open Source Software”. Mambo competed against open source luminaries such as KDE, Firebird SQL, and eGroupware.
- September 2004: Mambo version 4.5.1 is released, followed a month later by version 4.5.1a stable.
Robert Castley
From November 2004 Mambo enters a time of change.
- November 2004: Andrew Eddie takes over as Acting Project Leader following the departure of Robert Castley.
2005
- Mambo wins "Best of Show" and "Best Open Source Solution" at Boston's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
- March 2005: Mambo Open Source is rebranded as "Mambo" to reduce confusion over the name.
Mambo
- Versions 4.5.2 and later, 4.5.2.1 are released.
- May 2005: Mambo is approved as a participant in the Google Summer of Code. Mambo 4.5.2.2 released.
- June 2005: Mambo 4.5.2.3 is released.
- August 2005: Mambo wins "Best Open Source Solution" at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, San Francisco
- August 17th 2005: the Mambo core team announces the formation of a new company called "Open Source Matters". Soon after, they launch the Joomla! CMS using the Mambo 4.5.3 codebase from the Mambo CVS.
Andrew Eddie
- September 2005 Mambo forms a new core development team with Martin Brampton appointed as Core Development Team leader.
- The new Team Mambo commence development based on last usable branch left in CVS - Mambo 4.5.2.
- November 2005: Mambo version 4.5.3 is released.
2006
- March 2006: Mambo named "Best Open Source Software Solution" at LinuxWorld Australia.
Martin Brampton
- April 2006: Chad Auld becomes the new Core Development Team Leader
- Mambo 4.5.4 is released..
- September 2006: Mambo version 4.6 is released.
- October 2006: Mambo 4.6.1 is released.
2007
- February 2007: Mambo 4.5.5 is released. This is a maintenance release for the 4.5.x branch.
- April 2007: Mambo 4.6.2 is released.
- Chad Auld is appointed as Project Leader.
- December 2007: Mambo 4.6.3 is released.
2008
- January 2008: Mambo 4.5.6 is released. This is the final release of the 4.5 branch.
Chad Auld
Mambo moves into its 8th year as an open source CMS
- April 2008: John Messingham is appointed Project Leader.
- Core Development Team renamed "Programming Team"
- May 2008: Andrés Felipe Vargas Valencia elected Programming Team leader.
- Mambo 4.6.4 is released.
- June 2008: Mambo 4.6.5 is released.
Andrés Felipe Vargas Valencia
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