I plan on pinging folks this weekend but my guess is we'll push off our release dates by a week. I know at least a couple of folks were stung by not being able to get to the CVS tree.
If you are offering to help with docs, please by all means e-mail Roberto directly. He's had some recent problems, i.e. net connectivity in student housing went away for awhile and came back just in time for the openacs.org server to disappear, so it is understandable if he's a bit behind on getting the "doc doc" put together for public consumption.
Yes, the installation guide I pointed to was meant to be for folks working on the project, not newcomers to OpenACS. Obviously our release docs need to be targetted to the general user, not ourselves.