My major concern is finding people who can write & edit material appropriate for end users AND have the time to do so AND are interested, willing, and able to work within the Apache production model (which includes taking the time to learn to use new tools). If AOOo can find those people, great! But I suspect few, if any, of the people who have been producing Sun/Oracle-OOo user guides will be interested and willing. (The Help authors almost surely don't have the time to do more than answer a few questions.)
I've seen several projects, including Sun-OOo, get into a situation where an official process produced very little or nothing, and an unofficial process & group produced useful user-oriented material. The project then had the choice of adopting the unofficial material as "official" or linking to it and labelling it "community" docs or treating it as "third party" docs similar to books from any outside publisher. Hmmm... perhaps ODFAuthors should start producing the equivalent of O'Reilly's "Missing Manuals" and avoid the whole "official" can of worms. ;-) --Jean
