This has been posted in various places already (Planet Debian, debian-project among them), but as the FHS has a rather direct impact on Debian Policy in particular, I thought an explicit forward was in order. I am seriously concerned by the target of "releas[ing] FHS 3.0 by July 1". This leaves almost no time for distributions to review and comment on proposed changes (as such things are historically measured for the FHS), and there are a number of proposals on the table that would drop current parts of the spec because of one person or another's pet peeve - instead of focusing on areas where the current spec is inadequate, much of the list discussion is around one feature or another that someone thinks is unnecessary, and little consideration seems to be given to the transition issues related to dropping such features. While Debian has no obligation to adopt a future broken version of the FHS, I think it would be much better if policy-minded folks could participate in the process and help to prevent it from being broken in the first place. We may not be able to avoid the precipitous release of a new major version after a mere 2 months of discussion, but we can at least try to keep it from rendering itself irrelevant. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org ----- Forwarded message from Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org> ----- Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 21:34:22 -0400 From: Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org> To: lsb-discuss <lsb-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org> Subject: [lsb-discuss] Call for Participation: FHS Relaunch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 The LSB workgroup is preparing FHS 3.0, which will be the first FHS release since 2004. As part of that release, we are soliciting contributions from all interested parties. Our goal is to release FHS 3.0 by July 1 if possible. How to contribute: - We are continuing to use the old FHS Bugzilla, at http://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/. Please file any new bugs under the "FHS" product. If you have filed a bug there in the past, we will evaluate it shortly. If you have any additional information to provide, feel free to add comments to any of the bugs listed there. - We will monitor the distributions@ list, lsb-discuss, and the new fhs-discuss mailing list for feedback (see below regarding the latter). Feedback from the lists will likely end up being tracked as bugs in Bugzilla. - We have set up a new version control repository for the DocBook source to the FHS. It uses Bazaar, and can be found at http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/lsb/devel/fhs-spec. This can be useful for submitting proposed changes to the spec as patches. - We have a new mailing list for the FHS, fhs-discuss. You can learn more, subscribe, and see archives here: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss - Finally, we have set up a new reference specification section for the FHS at the Linux Foundation's specification page: http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/fhs.shtml Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested, or point them to the FHS Web page we've set up: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/lsb/fhs _______________________________________________ lsb-discuss mailing list lsb-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lsb-discuss ----- End forwarded message -----
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