Thanks to efforts from several contributors I was able to push a substantive release of Policy a little over a week ago. It contains a lot of changes that I was very pleased to release:

Changes:
 debian-policy (4.1.5.0) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Policy: Update section 4.1, "Standards conformance"
     Wording: Ian Jackson
     Seconded: Sean Whitton
     Seconded: Holger Levsen
     Closes: #901160
   * Policy: Require d-devel consultation for each epoch bump
     Wording: Ian Jackson
     Seconded: Sean Whitton
     Seconded: Paul Gevers
     Closes: #891216
   * Policy: Document Rules-Requires-Root
     Wording: Niels Thykier
     Wording: Guillem Jover
     Wording: Sean Whitton
     Seconded: Paul Gevers
     Closes: #880920
   * Policy: Update version of POSIX standard for shell scripts
     Wording: Sean Whitton
     Seconded: Simon McVittie
     Seconded: Julien Cristau
     Seconded: Gunnar Wolf
     Closes: #864615
   * Policy: Update version of FHS from 2.3 to 3.0
     Wording: Simon McVittie
     Seconded: Sean Whitton
     Seconded: Julien Cristau
     Closes: #787816
   * Add reference link to section 4.1 to section 5.6.11.

We’re now looking forward to the rolling Debian Policy spring at DebCamp18. You do not need to be physically present at DebCamp18 to participate. My goal is firstly to enable others to work on bugs by providing advice about the process and how to move things along, and secondarily to get some patches written for uncontroversial bugs.

See the linked wiki page for more information on the sprint.