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[Mitch Pirtle]

Hey gang,

Well we finally agreed on a name, that was not already trademarked or
taken, and even have the TLDs to prove it.

We will be announcing the new name in 1.5 days, and want to make sure
anyone with a *mambo.com or mambo*.com domain has a chance to
preregister the new domain - for example, mambohut.com's owner should
get first crack at (newname)hut.com.

If you (or someone you know) own an existing mambo* domain, please go
to www.opensourcematters.org and click on the 'Domain Name Form' link
on the top of the page.

On a side note, I am hearing that some people are downloading Miro's
release of Mambo 4.5.3 beta. I want to point out that this appears to
be our pre-alpha cvs snapshot of 4.5.3, with a couple additions and no
fixes. So I would call this a pre-alpha at best, and do not recommend
it for anything other than showing how broken mambo can be.

This is important, as many people are reading "beta" and thinking
"production", and are blowing up their public websites left and right.

And to add insult to injury, I am told that when they go to the
mamboserver.com forums to ask for help, they get "sorry this is a
beta, we do not support it"; and when they go to the
opensourcematters.org forum they get "we didn't release this, and
cannot support it."

I would stay far far away from this release, only to wait for a more
stable package as support is definitely an issue at this point - and
the last cvs copy of 4.5.3 I have doesn't even install any 3PD
components/modules/mambots/templates at this point, and is missing
tons of template files (it cannot even render many core forms).

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Mitch Pirtle
OpenSourceMatters.org