In reply to David Crabill.

The real issue is that no one in bbpress talks about this, they totally ignore it. In fact, it is very simple to remedy! But first you have to accept that there is something to solve or something to improve upon.

Last post is from November 2013 saying that 2.5 release is overdue:
https://bbpdevel.wordpress.com

bbpress 2.6 is more than 4 months late (according to the official timeline - which isn't saying much since bbpress releases regularly get booted by 1 or more months)

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.6

All JJJ has to do is approach wp and say, hey, I really need some help. the project is suffering and falling way behind so can we get 2-3 other devs up in here? thanks