Even if they release another alpha (or beta but that would be crazy), that doesn't mean it's stable, it means it needs to be tested and debugged, thoroughly. Sam only has a limited environment to test things. Problems with PHP4 or Windows come up constantly and other things he can't easily test. There's also a good chance plugins will become broken (again/still).

Do NOT use the alpha on a live, active site. Period. Seriously. Not kidding. It's not a trick. Alphas are for testing purposes only. Objects may be closer than they appear.

If you ignore this warning, you are on your own.

If you log in here, you can see the number of open tickets by milestone: http://trac.bbpress.org/report/3 . There are quite a few open for 1.0. Also, there hasn't been a 1.0 beta or release candidate either. So, just my guess, no.

i'm antsy to add a forum to my blog but dont know if i should wait for the stable version?

I managed to get them working ageeees ago in the 0.9 releases, any reason this wouldn't work now?

1. The setup script didn't properly enter the secret keys in the config file so the forum didn't function until I manually entered this info in the file (I ran setup twice clean just to be sure).

2. Not sure if it's related or not, but at one point my admin account's password stopped functioning after updating my display name...? Strange.

Specifically an upgrade from 0.8 series to 0.9 required additional uri path variables in bb-config.

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unable-to-upgrade-081-to-0902#post-16890

But even after uncovering that special little surprise I am still having issues.

Before I debug further to find outstanding problems, other than the path variables that needs to be inserted in bb-config prior to running the database upgrade- can I go from the .8 series directly to 1.0 alpha or do I first need to upgrade to 0.9, then upgrade THAT to 1.0.

I didn't see your post.

BBPress Alpha is in its own database. All the tables appear to be there, numbering 12. This is a standalone BBPress. The only thing I have done differently is to put the hidden forums plugin in "my-plugins", but it is not activated, nor are any other plugins like Askimet or Bozo.

This happened to me once before. I thought I was seeing things. In my case, it was cookies or something because when I restarted the browser and tried again, it worked fine. Can you recreate the problem in another browser?

Is this integrated with anything, or just a standalone bbPress installation?

For the same tables, I would need to look at the schema changes between 0.9 and 1.0, but I *believe* there are changes, which means it would not work to use the same exact tables.

edit: _ck_ beat me to it :-)

You may find yourself thinking it's still working with 0.9 afterwards, but there will be critical updates missing, for example the topicmeta table is no longer used or updated in 1.0, even though it's left in the db.

I suspect there will be a beta in a month and maybe gold by November. It all depends how much time Sam and MDA can put into it.

Everyone can help the process by putting the alpha through it's rounds and writing up quality bug reports in TRAC.

There's something weird about your server's load.
The first page takes a long time to respond. Then once you have a connection you can browse fairly smoothly until it stalls again. It's not bbpress doing it because it happens on the other side too.

ps. you are going to need the "allow images" plugin

Any series of steps you do via phpmyadmin can be saved in sql code and made into a converter. Give me the sql commands and I'll make you a script.

In fact I'm not by far enough PHP and sql fluently to use sql commands.

My SimplePress forum is rather young so I don't have thousands of messages (274 in fact).
I proceed in a very manual way :
On my Mac / Firefox I have 4 tabs, the old forum, the BBPress forum, the Old forum phpmyadmin and BBpress php myadmin

I copy a message in the old forum, craete a new message in BBpress then correct in phpmyadmin the time poster id and so on.

Old forum :
http://luc.saint-elie.com/echanges/

BBpress 1.0 install
http://luc.saint-elie.com/bbpress/

Its long but it works.

Luc

Any series of steps you do via phpmyadmin can be saved in sql code and made into a converter. Give me the sql commands and I'll make you a script.

I'm in the same situation, using SimplePress and willing to switch.

I'm not willing to do so because of SimplePress problems (SimplePress is far more advanced than most forums scripts, BBPress included and far better integrated with WP than most forums BBPress included) but because it's a single man project and the day he will decide to have a life it's likely the project will be dropped...

Currently I'm converting things by hand (and with PhpMyAdmin) because I didn't found any converter (and that's normal, Simple Press is not very well known and would deserve better diffusion).

I would be interested by your experience in integrating BBpress in WP design.

Luc