For everyone that's waited for it for a while now, this new note about the restarting of development on phpDocumentor from Greg Beaver's weblog today should come as a welcome surprise:

Bongiorno! I am writing this entry from Reggio Emilia, Italia where the weather is unbelievable and the generosity overflows.

That, however, is not the point of this entry. After a full year's vacation from phpDocumentor development, I finally took up the mantle again and have started fixing bugs in 1.3.0RC3 in preparation for RC4. In order to do this, I exported the bug list from sourceforge in xml format, and wrote a simplexml-based browser in about 1 hour. Development actually began in the terminal at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, and is moving quite briskly. 5 bugs down so far, averaging about 1 bug every 10 minutes of development time. Hopefully, by the time I return from Europe all of them will have been fixed.

With the last release candidate posted in April of 2004, official bug fixes, patches, and new features will be a wonderful thing for the world of phpDocumentor.