Xoket (zah-ket) is about learning and sharing.
http://www.velvetcache.org/2012/02/16/xoket-the-learning-framework
As stated above, documentation is essential. PHPDoc formatting will be used.
Xoket will be a single request, MVC framework. HMVC is popular, but in the interest of complexity, we will not be implementing multiple request.
Taking a queue from The Zen of Python I will try to write explicitly, instead of using implicit magic. Unusual technique will be commented and discussed.
As much functionality that can be moved out of the core, should be kept out of the core. Auto-loading will be PSR-0 compatible, but also include some cascading functionality similar to Kohana.
Xoket will be designed for PHP 5.3 and higher. If you aren't running modern PHP you should, there really isn't a good excuse.