[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #122: Add bbPress as a flavor option to WordPress Showcase

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#122: Add bbPress as a flavor option to WordPress Showcase
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  Reporter:  Sadr         |      Owner:
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  low          |  Component:  General
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  close
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Comment (by johnjamesjacoby):

 It's all about deciding what to integrate, and what to separate. The bb's
 have historically been kept at arms length everywhere on WordPress.org,
 with links in the footer only being added as recently as 2012. The fact
 that there is a BuddyPress section in the WordPress.org showcase is an
 anomaly. I don't recall exactly who pushed for that being there, but at
 the time BuddyPress.org actually did have its own showcase which we took
 down because manually maintaining was cumbersome as sites would shift
 around their designs or CMS's.

 My opinion is to keep BuddyPress where it is, and add a bbPress section.
 The greater part of the past few years have been spent improving
 integration of the bb's into the overall WordPress experience, and I think
 it's helped all of the projects equally (though the bb's obviously benefit
 more.) An example of this is having BuddyPress and bbPress plugins and
 themes available through WordPress.org rather than via their own
 repositories, but because those repositories have an API, those results
 can be made available natively on BuddyPress.org and bbPress.org.

 The WordPress way to solve the showcase dilemma is for the Showcase should
 to have an API similar to plugins and themes -- 1 central repository for
 showcasing all kinds of WordPress sites that plugin & theme authors can
 use on their own sites rather than opting into launching and maintaining
 their own.

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