1. I don't understand the build process well enough to know why the sdo section is appearing on http://docs.php.net/ but the two DAS sections aren't. Is there a manual step needed? And when do things get promoted to php.net?
Not sure. it shows up on my livedocs.. ? http://livedocs.phpdoc.info/index.php?l=en&q=ref.sdo.das.rel
2. We note that a <procedure> with <step> appears with numbered steps when we build locally but without numbers on http://docs.php.net/ Is that something we can fix, do you know?
This is a simple rendering difference between the dsssl ("make html") and livedocs (docs.php.net). File a "Livedocs problem" at http://bugs.php.net/ if you'd like to see this resolved. (I don't think <procedure> and <step> are very widely used...)
And a meta-question - should I be asking these questions on a different newsgroup or is this one right?
Nope, this is the one. S
