I've just received the following email from Apache:

Subject: Now available: Apache OpenOffice Announcement List
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:29:21 -0500
From: Rob Weir
Reply-To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

The Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee is pleased to
announce the availability of our new Announcement mailing list. This
is a low-volume list which will be used to announce the availability
of OpenOffice betas and releases, to issue security bulletins, and to
report similar relevant information. This is not a discussion list.
It will be used only for authoritative announcements regarding Apache
OpenOffice.

We encourage all OpenOffice users and other interested parties to
subscribe to this list

It then goes on to describe how to subscribe.

Interesting!