Platform support policy proposal

There is a fair amount of confusion about the specific operating system platforms, platform versions, etc. that Chef Software, Inc. supports for its products. This RFC will clarify this by calling out the individual operating systems and their releases as explicitly supported or not.
Its a zero sum game, and based on the size of the TODO list and the distros that we should support that are more modern and the lack of agility that we have in our CI infrastructure, I'm skeptical.  If we did a stack ranking exercise of distro support things like better OEL testing (server), SmartOS, Debian (server), ArchLinux, Gentoo, etc are going to be ahead of it.  I'd argue that SLES 10 is probably more important as well.  And if we start from the top of the list and work down we're not going to hit FreeBSD 8 before its end of life.