Author here: It was abandoned. I linked to one of the former maintainers who said as much. The current effort is by a few people who asked the LF to take out over, and have (so far) done little after an initial flurry of activity. That, too, is covered in the other article I wrote about the FHS recently.
Prior to the group who started an update effort, it had not been touched in about a decade. That’s not slow-moving: that’s abandoned.
Prior to the group who started an update effort, it had not been touched in about a decade. That’s not slow-moving: that’s abandoned.