[wp-hackers] [GSoC] profiles.wordpress.org

[Jane Wells]

On 3/29/11 7:46 PM, Stas Sușcov wrote:
> Profile fields should not be a problem (I recently wrote a plugin that
> converts all the xProfile fields data to user metadata, with one click).
>
> What about groups... I think (I'm almost sure) I can use some custom
> taxonomy to replace that. But I need more details, now I'm just
> guessing.
I guess my question is why would we get rid of the BuddyPress plugin 
only to replace it with other plugins that don't have community 
development tied to core?