Re: [Proposal] Highlighting *.php.net Projects

Hi People! [Davey please use this letter to reply, not the previous one].

I'd like to propose a new feature for php.net. In the last few days I've been thinking over how php.net doesn't really give much exposure to its sub-projects - these being PEAR, PECL, GTK and Smarty. I would like to organise the production of a set of short articles for php.net highlighting each of these projects. One article for each. I've already bounced the idea around with a few other people and Messju Mohr (messju@php.net) and Pierre Alain Joye (paj@php.net) have expressed an interest in writing an article on Smarty (Messju), PEAR and PECL (Both pierre). I will also be talking to some people about writing a GTK one as soon as I can. Though I've had little time to hash out the format, I think it should cover things like: - What it is - Where it is - Who it is (not sure about this one, for PEAR/PECL theres too many people) - How to get started - How to get help - How to contribute Whilst this stuff is covered (at least in part) elsewhere, I feel it would give each project some needed exposure to the masses, whilst collating it all in a common format for each project in one place.

I wonder why aren't these projects equiped with such explanations themselfs on their own homepage. For a long term solution it would only be logical to have these introductions on the product sites. So then why to put them at phpweb the first time? The idea of a "featured project" seems to be good to me, but the solution does not seem to be right. Why should people come to php.net to get an idea of what PEAR or PECL is? They should be able to get the most on the PEAR / PECL site, including a newbies introduction. Goba