Open (public) forum to discuss Buoy. See https://github.com/betterangels/buoy/issues for work to pick up!
good first issue
in the issue tracker.
@LizPrescott Sorry I'm just seeing this!
There are many benefits to using Vagrant over installing WordPress without it. The most imporatnt answer to your question is that using Vagrant ensures that your copy of the Buoy development environment matches exactly the configuration that other developers (like me) use when we run the development copy. This makes it much, much easier to assure ourselves that problems in our code are problems actually in our code, and not caused by differences in, say, PHP version, or Web server software chosen, or things outside-of-our-app.