How do changes to the FHS happen ? [was Re: What's this /run directory doing on my system and where does it come from?]

[David Lutterkort]

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 09:30 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> > There are many directories already in Fedora that are not 
> > defined by FHS and even though we have asked them to update 
> > it (libexec, /selinux /sys etc), there is noone maintaining 
> > it.
> 
> This is stunningly untrue.  I've worked for years in the 
> fields of LSB, FHS and LANANA to make sure there are traceable 
> paths for such requests.  Post the URLs to your bugs in the 
> LSB / LF tracker if you assert you have done such

How do changes to the FHS actually happen ? All I can find is the names
of the three past editors of the standard, and a mailing list that seems
to be overrun by spam.

There doesn't seem to be any body/group that meets regularly to resolve
issues and work towards an FHS update.

Maybe it is time to set up such a group, e.g., by letting each distro
put one representative forward that will discuss and vote on FHS changes
on that distro's behalf. I think the group that Lennart worked with is a
very encouraging sign that something like this is possible.

David