From first commit to release, bbPress took: 436 days or 1 year, 2 months, 9 days or 62 weeks (pick a format you like)

436 days for a WordPress plug-in that already had it's functionality defined, and had a paid for full-time developer? Just to give us the same functionality that we already had, but slightly less scalability?!

I like the new plug-in for my smaller sites I'll probably flip them over the the plug-in over the original forum in the next few months, and JJJ has done some truly great work on it, but I'm still somewhat amazed by how much Kool-Aid drinking went on in regard to this project.