The best way to get involved with the manual is to choose a piece that is not done. Claim it to make sure no one else is duplicating the effort by sending a note to the mailing list. When you have a completed file, or a patch to an existing file, send it to the list so that Alex or someone else can check it in for you.

Here's a todo list of things you could choose to do. It is in order from easy and immediate to harder and longer term:

Another far-out wishlist item is to make anonymous comments on the bottom of the online version of the manual possible. The effect of the comments on the bottom of the mySQL online manual is to make it much much better, both by letting readers point out gotchas they suffered, and by letting different voices be heard. Getting this done will involve getting buy-in from Melissa (webmistress extraordinare). The system should also run in a mode where a maintainer can nuke comments that are no longer needed when their content has been rolled into the manual.

Find a place to document useful TCL debugging tricks. For example:

proc bl {} { puts [ bundle list ]; after 5000 bl }