[Sam Bauers]

There are two people committing code for bbPress and one of them (mdawaffe) was heavily involved with the WordPress 2.5 release.

If there have been two release candidates for WordPress, that means there have been changes to WordPress that we have to match in that time.

It’s just a matter of limited resources at this stage. We also have identified one blocker which needs to be fixed before we can release 0.9