The wip-manual branch contains various bits of work on the manual. It's largely driven by the plan to publish the manual as a book, later this year, and the biggest change so far is the merging of the GOOPS manual. Apart from that I'm not following any kind of systematic plan, just reviewing and working on areas as I notice them.
One general thing is that I am consciously _not_ trying to make the manual more consistent in style - i.e. closer to my own style, or to a more `neutral' style, or whatever; I actually think it's quite fun that the style and tone change a bit from place to place. So my overall guideline is only to change something when there is a clear benefit from doing so, not just because I'd write it a bit differently. So, please let me know of any comments. Subject to those, I'll merge what's there already after the 1.9.2 release, and then keep working on this as time permits. Regards, Neil