Drupal 8 Manual

We haven't written much about the User Guide here lately, so I wanted to post a quick update:

a) The User Guide has recently been updated, with new screenshots and a few text changes, for Drupal 8.4.0. You can view the User Guide on Drupal.org (English, with links to translations) at:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/index.html
For PDFs, e-books, and other information, always check the User Guide project home page:
https://www.drupal.org/project/user_guide

Several of the active Drupal translation groups have noticed that we now have a User Guide on Drupal.org... Today, I'd like to formally announce that the User Guide is open for translation!

I am very pleased to announce that the English version of the User Guide is live on drupal.org, at last! You can see it at
https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/index.html

You will also see links on the User Guide pages to Catalan and Hungarian (Magyar) versions of the User Guide. These are in-progress translations, with most images in the target language. Currently, most of the text is still in English, but more complete translations will be coming soon, since these two language teams are hard at work translating.

At long last, the copy editing of the User Guide is done! (If you've been a member of this group for a while, you should know what I'm talking about; if not, go browse the archives at https://groups.drupal.org/documentation for the last 1.5 years or so). I'd like to thank everyone who helped with editing tasks, and especially Jojy Alphonso (jojyja), who did the vast majority of the copy editing. THANK YOU!

If you've been following discussions here for a while, you're hopefully aware that for the past year, we've been working on creating a User Guide for Drupal 8, and it is coming along very well. I'd like to thank recent volunteers Anna van Raaphorst, Antje Lorch, Boris Doesborg, Charles Leverington, Grant Dunham, Jojy Alphonso, Michael Lenahan, Zach Carter, and attendees of a Spokane workshop for their help in testing the guide, updating content for accuracy, and copy editing!

I was looking at the Sprints page for DrupalCon New Orleans and noticed that on the accompanying sign-up spreadsheet, there is not yet a Documentation sprint listed. (Sprints are times at DrupalCon where people get together to work on projects.) I can't complain about this too much, since I will not be at DrupalCon and will also not be available remotely to help out...

I made a post last week about copy editing the User Guide. Thanks everyone who has already gotten involved! We still could use more help -- and there are new tasks that do not require making "patch" files, and updated instructions.

Details:

I'm pleased to announce that the User Guide has an all-but-complete first draft! (There are 3 topics that haven't been written, but they are all just about done.) So, it's time for the next phase: copy editing and testing. There were many people who, when we originally announced the User Guide project, said they were interested in helping during the editing phase -- now is your chance!

A big thanks to Advomatic, who hosted a 4-hour User Guide sprint today! From my perspective, it went very well; I hope the participants will comment here with their thoughts. Oliver/oseldman organized the sprint, and he contacted me ahead of time to ask if I had any suggestions. Then they picked a time (and notified me ahead of time), so that Joe and I could try to be available in IRC while they were sprinting.

As I'm sure most of you know, Drupal 8.0.0 was released a few weeks ago (and 8.0.1 has already followed). There was much rejoicing, after several years of development!