NYCPHP Meetup

[Gary Mort]

Those of us who have talked to Mitch have most likely heard the story of 
how Joomla! came to be.  How it was originally Mambo and when the Mambo 
team went in a direction most of the developers could not tolerate, it 
was forked to become Joomla!.

Recently, it appears that FFMPEG[the open source project which provides 
"the" video creation/player base for linux] had the same thing occur.  
What is amusing though is instead of forking the process, after long 
dragged out discussions and flamewars, it appears that they simply 
co-opted FFMPEG when it the sourcecode and such was migrated to a new 
provider.  Since they were in control of that process, they merely 
locked out the current maintainer and appointed a new one.
http://lwn.net/Articles/423705/

Makes me wonder if perhaps the reason Joomla! is still stuck on 
Subversion is more due to fear of giving someone else control of the 
sourcecode while migrating to Git rather than for any other reason.

-Gary