Most of the information I mentioned IS already on the PEAR/PECL/GTK/Smarty site, but people just don't know it. I find that more frequently than not, people think PEAR is a Database Abstraction Layer. The idea is to educate people in an easy way, some place they can find it.
Theres nothing to stop these articles being put on the PEAR/PECL/GTK/Smarty sites - they would indeed benefit from these. But short term, php.net ensures these documents get exposure they should get.
Yep. As I have said, I like the idea of promoting these subprojects. And I also think that the long term the sites will benefit from having these introductions on their own pages. So what about having a "featured project of the month" or something like that above the first news item in a box, which has two paragrapgs of introduction of a project and a logo of that project, and leads the viewer to an introduction page hosted *on the project site*. This way, people will get to the project site while reading the introduction, and they can instantly discover what the project offers.
Why not put these introductions to the right place the first time instead of playing with them later?
Goba