“The Drupal community is particularly excited about this initiative because it will give the Drupal team a chance to finally examine the secrets of the Joomla! code base. For years we’ve been wondering what Joomla!’s secret sauce is (there’s been speculation that it has something to do with the ! … we even thought about rebranding to Drupal! at one point, but the contrarians said we couldn’t just be copycats, and proposed Drupal?, which didn’t seem to have the same appeal, but that’s another story…)

While we are very dedicated to Joopal, as you might imagine, we are aware of the danger that we might not get along with the Joomla! folks. They have a rough history of being quite difficult to get along with (cases in point: Mambo fork, Amy Stephen, SXSW… need I say more?), so we do reserve the right to fork the project again at some point in the future and go back to being Drupal. Or maybe #Drupal.

Anyway, I for one welcome our new supreme overlord, boss of the Joopal project, Matt Mullenweg. Matt, I think it was a good decision to give up your hobby project and come play with the big boys, and I’m sure you’ll do a great job here. Welcome.

-Dries”

Es genial.

Saludos.