Finally, after a 1.5 years of the development process, we managed to release the first stable version of Open Power Template. The road was very long but I hope that it was worth it. In this short entry, I'd like to make a small introduction to the project history for you, as it is quite interesting and could give some clue, how this all began.

Finally, the first Release Candidate of Open Power Template is available to download, after 4 months of testing and implementing the remaining features. The library seems to be completed and stable enough for both development and production environments. Of course, there is still a small possibility that a fatal bug will be found, but I do not think this will happen, as there are lots of unit tests present and the code has been checked with two real-world web applications.

I've recently uploaded the first revision of Open Power Libs port for Zend Framework to our SVN repositories and it is available there for public audience. The port is not completed yet, but the basic functionality is present and seems to work. I encourage everyone to test it and submit suggestions or noticed bugs. The package includes a test ZF application, and the source code is well-commented. I'll put some extra information on wiki soon, as well as set up the "real" user manual.

Well, after many adventures with SVN and recently discovered problems with XML prologs and DTD I finally managed to release the first beta version of Open Power Template. From now, we are going to focus on removing as many bugs and problems as possible and we need here your help. Furthermore, we also need to complete the English manual, which is quite big now, but still does not explain some issues.

At last, the translation of the manual into English is complete and the source code has been already released as the first version of TypeFriendly, the documentation generator. In is available in Files on the main site. The user manual is provided in the source form and it works also as an example, so please do not worry that something is missing. All the necessary information to build the HTML version can be found in /info/README.txt file. All you need is to type one command in the system console. The on-line documentation will be available soon, as we are preparing new website. To get more information about TypeFriendly, take a look at the previous note.