It’s based on BP (which makes sense), it syncs with the wp.org user database and it’s all new… nice work guys.
Not only that but they have themes and plugins – which is interesting as that would imply that there’s gonna be no crossover with the regular WP.org repositories.
Unless they are gonna cross pollinate… which would be nice…
Otherwise it’s very much BP going and doing its own thing, a bit like bbPress, which, unfortunately, seems to have led to a kind of quiet stagnation on that front :/ Having said that, I’m still a huge bbpress fan though (have you checked out our new forums design at edublogs).
I wonder how/if this will effect the eventual redesign & setup of mu.wordpress.org – I mean, come on guys, the poor ol’ site is looking pretty dated these days!
The plugin repo is actually just the standard WordPress plugin repo. All I’m doing is filtering on plugins that have the “BuddyPress” tag in the readme.txt. The plugin still appears on the WordPress site (there are links on each plugin) and could also appear on the MU site too.
So basically what I’m saying is – if you have a plugin in the WordPress plugin repo that is BuddyPress “enabled”, just tag it with “BuddyPress” and it will instantly show up on the site.
Nice, cross pollination indeed :)
I’d prefer it if, instead, they focused on getting MU 2.7.1 released, so that Andy can release the 1.0 of BuddyPress.
It’s been over six weeks since WordPress 2.7.1 was released, on February 10, and 2.8, due in early April, is shaping up to be a pretty major release. MU is an wonderful, wonderful product but the dependency on MU is BuddyPress’ biggest drawback at the moment.