Ive been wondering about this ever since hearing about it on The Tek #159 last month. I have to agree that the forums definitely could use a facelift. The Discourse forum software looks really awesome with both visually and structurally. I see a lot of features that popular closed source forum software such as IPB lacks as well.
Is the upgrade going to happen? If so, how far along is it? I remember hearing that there are a few quirks with importing the current forum database into it. Is that still a problem being worked on?