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JMorris, I think part of what your saying is right, but the other part just simple isnt.
I seriously think that if someone can port a decent forum (phpBB, SMF, punBB, myBB) to XOOPS, it will really help boost XOOPS up a notch. Why? Simply to say that XOOPS doesnt have any forum software thats well "industry standard."
NewBB 2 is a very big improvement over Newbb 1, but its to complex and isnt as well known and easy to use as phpBB or SMF. CBB tries to fix some of these problems and it does, but its just not good enough.
So yes, its not necessarily the job the core dev to port a forum over, but it would be nice if it was done by people familiar with the XOOPS Core so it can be done correctly.