It should be even more seamless than it is now, possibly even included with the default BuddyPress package. (But I’ll defer to core BP people there.)
I think the way it would make the most sense is for it to work kind of how the Blogs component does now. If you don’t have multi-site turned on, the Blogs component is kind of dormant.
I imagine we would pull bbPress out of the buddypress.zip, and instead have BuddyPress be more ‘bbPress aware’ so to speak. It would see if it’s already installed and if it’s active, then BuddyPress Forums lights up and is available for fun adventures.
This way we’ll be able to separate the need for forums to be linked to groups, which has been an area of debate since we went that way. Forums could really be used for almost anything now!
Exactly the way I always dreamed it would be <3
Thanks for the answers guys, this really puts my mind at ease.
