The Great Documentation Dilemma

[DCoder]

But really, is he serious that this project depends of this?

Seriously?
How did you learn what new functionality is in .960? By reading either the commit messages or the bugtracker discussions, I bet.

How do you think a hundred new users will learn about new functionality and how to use it? 5 will browse the bugtracker or the forums, 5 will get on IRC and ask us, 10 will decide that they have better things to do than hunt around for a decent manual and give up, and the remaining 80 will create 2500 new threads asking the same questions over and over.
If there's a decent manual, like for 0.1, 60 people will find it sufficient, 5 will get on IRC to clarify something, 5 will find typos in it, and the remaining 30 will create 500 new threads at PPM complaining about how the manual is too difficult to read.