(I'm not sure this will get through to the list, as I am not subscribed, so I am Cc:ing you.)
You wrote:
- Enlist some 'official' distribution maintainers (at the minimum RedHat, Suse, Mandrake, Debian)
Please also include FreeBSD, and feel free to contact me for FreeBSD-related issues, especially concerning this kind of "official" distribution maintainers.
Many contributors (including myself) have been providing patches to improve portability or support FreeBSD-specific features which differ from GNU/Linux and the port should be in a decent shape.
Thanks, Gerald