joint documentation site for php.net projects

Hi, [Note: intentionally crossposted to a lot of addresses.] It is a long time TODO item on the phpdoc TODO list, that we should set up a website specifically for the documentation team. Now as we are preparing for an initial version of the site, and livedocs is in the works, a need for a joint documentation website came up, which would include information and tools for people working on the php-doc, pear-doc, pecl-doc, php-gtk-doc, smarty-doc and livedocs stuff. Since livedocs will hopefully help us unify our systems, and share our experience and detached development more easily, it would be desirable to set up a joint website. It would also help translators to move around the projects, and contributors to help out in more than one project. The address of this site will be something like doc.php.net or docs.php.net. The hardware is going to be provided to us via Mehdi (under preparation). This site should host a lot of stuff related to the phpdoc tools: - documentation howto (moved here from php.net, updated/extended for the different projects) - revcheck output (translation uptodate checks) - locally hosted build logs (or make test outputs, or just links to remote build logs, so translators will easily find out what is wrong, if files of a language does not seem to update) - functable output (undocumented functions, etc) - a public livedocs interface to the manuals - more: link and ID consistency checks, etc. These are the ideas we have on what to include on the website about the PHP manual. This site would ideally include a lot more information about the different documentation teams: TODO items; help for newcomers to join the teams (build systems, organization, etc); a list of all mailing lists related to the documentation teams (even not listed on php.net). Since I am admittedly not working in any of the documentation projects apart from phpdoc, I only have remote ideas on what can we put up on this new site helping those working in the other teams. I have put together a simple homepage plan for this site to start discussion (attached). All of the links are supposed to be local: the links representing the different subprojects will lead to local pages presenting more information about those doc subprojects. The different documentation helping tools are supposed to be accessible on this machine. Mehdi is also preparing a version which includes working revcheck outputs and other stuff, but that is not yet ready for public review (at least this is my understanding). Now I would like to ask you to just think about this a bit, and if you are interested in the development, please provide your opinion on how would it be best to discuss the further directions (crosspost replies, a designated mailing list, personal emails, IRC, or something else?) Have a nice day, Goba