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THIS IS IMPORTANT POST, WHICH EVERYONE SHOULD READ:

For the time being, according to the plan laid down by Matt (which was weeks ago), bbPress will continue to be a standalone till some 1.2 version and then change into a plugin.

Now there are 2 things for you to consider:

1. Start your own project and if you start, then there will be 2 things:

   1. Either your project would get more attention if development doesn’t start here
   3. Or your project and hard work would go into vain if the development starts here/or you still don’t get popularity. So you might consider point 2.

2. Wait for the development to start (which would only happen when Matt pays attention to it, maybe after WP 3.0?). You might now want to start your own development, then see point 1.

I know that you might be confused, but I am also confused as much as you’re, thinking should I keep developing plugins for bbPress or not (nor any donations have come in the recent days). I’ll probably start developing plugins for BuddyPress/WordPress and be active on projects like After the Deadline/GlotPress.

I personally think that Matt is not considered about this project because (I might be wrong):

1. See his reply here – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/whats-happening-with-bbpress/page/5#post-64425 (which was his last post on this forum).
2. I mailed him to let me take on the development and he said to be just active on trac, maybe he has some other plans down the line?

Right now, chrishajer is committing patches to the trunk (as he has the svn access) and IMO, trunk is more stable than 1.0.2.

Another thing is that half the people want it to be a plugin and half want it to be a standalone. Thus, I posted this method – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-as-a-wordpress-plugin-thoughts#post-64476, and it is how BuddyPress integrates bbPress forums into WP/BP install. This way it will remain a standalone for those who want it to be simple, light, fast etc. and plugin for those who want deep integration, ease of install etc. The problem that arises here is the plugin and theme repo, anyone has a solution to that? Maybe here’s one – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-as-a-wordpress-plugin-thoughts#post-64737