Early on this year, a discussion emerged on the CherryPy mailing-list about the project. Most people said they loved the project but had struggled with its documentation. Though rich and extensive, it was felt it left down the project somehow by being not designed in a way that was attractive to new comers. I took upon myself to rewrite it from scratch following some ideas exchanged on the mailing-list.
The general expressed wish was to make it friendliers to people starting with the framework whilst making easy to look for common tasks and patterns. This suited me well as I wanted to carry the work I started on the various recipes I keep on BitBucket.
Eventually, I quickly wrote a set of tutorials to guide people through the general layout of a CherryPy application. Then I developed upon the recipes idea by going through many of the most recurrent questions we have on the mailing-list. Finally, I wrote an extensive section regarding the core features of the framework: plugins, tools, the bus, the dispatchers, etc. Those features are seldom used to their best even though they provide a very powerful backbone to design your application in clean way.
The documentation is now online and seems to have been well-received. It will need to be completed but I believe they already make the project much more appealing and fun to work with.