Agile Toolkit, worth using?

Question

I'm considering using the Agile Toolkit, ATK4 to upgrade a number of web projects that I'm working on. I really like the idea/paradigm that the Agile Toolkit presents, but I'm worried about documentation.

The agile website's documentation is sparse, in broken English, and seems to 'paraphrase' the symfony documentation.

The agile toolkit alleges to have been in development/production since 1999, yet there are only a handful of StackOverflow.com posts regarding agile, and next to nothing comes up in Google searches...

In short is it worth spending time learning the Agile toolkit, or would my time be better spent on a framework that has more of an active support community? I've tried a few other frameworks, but ATK's implementation really stands out...

Answer 1

Initially ATK was born as an internal tool from Agile Technologies (.ie) so that has been conceived in 1999 but it was recently launched as dual licensed framework. That's why it lacks some documentation and has not a huge community nor appears Googling.

I was amazed at first sight by its working way proposal so that I engaged it. The documentation has been already improved and over the time it will keep getting better and community will grow. I had the chance to get in touch with the lead developer and trust me, it will get better and better.

Even, as an example all the ATK4's site is developed with the toolkit and the code is short and pretty easy to read.

Good luck!