Subsequently, Andrew Eddie and Adam Donnison, two of the more active developers, were granted administration rights to the project.

In late 2007, the new dotProject team began a major redevelopment using the Zend Framework, with version 3 (dP3) the expected target release to be utilising it.

dotProject is mostly a task-oriented project management system, predating contemporary tools addressing methodologies such as Agile software development.

Roles have a reasonably complex permissions system, allowing a certain degree of fine-tuning of what kind of information can be viewed and/or edited by the users.

This allows the establishment of complex relationships between the team members, the many projects they might be involved in, and the amount of work to be distributed among all.

Optionally, dotProject can send emails to the involved parties, triggered by special conditions — such as a task being overdue, or having been completed so that a customer can be invoiced.

Communication between team members can be as simple as leaving comments on tasks and/or logs, but dotProject also includes a minimalistic Forum facility.

It is unknown if there is a way to automatically subscribe to a specific calendar; by contrast, Contacts, a module that allows editing the data related to each user, also permits exports using the vCard format.

[7] As of April 2021, the original website mentioned before — which included a rich community of users — does not exist any longer, although https://dotproject.net/ is still actively maintained and points to some key resources (mostly on GitHub).