I have now studied the features lists for v3.5
(http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and-fixes/) and
v3.6 (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.6).
Numerous important changes were made in v3.5 to Writer and Draw as
well as Impress. Few new or updated features are listed for Draw and
Impress v3.6.
Updating the Draw Guide to 3.5 should not be a major job for PeterS,
because of the overlap between Draw and Impress. He has already agreed
to do it. Producing a v3.6 book for Draw or Impress should require
very little further work.
Updating the affected chapters of the Writer Guide to v3.5 will be a
fair bit of work for whoever does it (JohnS?), but then the update to
v3.6 should be relatively minor.
Calc appears to have numerous important changes in v3.5 and in v3.6,
so perhaps a case can be made for skipping a Calc Guide for v3.5 and
going directly to v3.6... assuming anyone is available to work on it,
given everything else that needs to be done.
IMO, we should have a Getting Started guide for v3.5 and another for
v3.6. But again, that assumes someone is available to work on it. I
traditionally do that book, other than the chapters extracted from
work others do for other books (Writer, Impress, Draw, Calc).
So, to summarise:
I think we should NOT skip the v3.5 books (other than, perhaps, Calc),
because of the major changes in v3.5. However, if individual
volunteers prefer to go directly to v3.6 for whatever they are working
on, I won't argue.
BTW, I intend to work on the remaining chapters of Calc v3.4 over the
next few days, so we can finish that book as soon as Andrew Pitonyak
does his chapters.
After that, I intend to work on Getting Started v3.5.
--Jean