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.
Is the parenthetical list supposed to be everything we consider "core resources" or simply examples?  If it is an example, is it worth it to enumerate the full list?  I fear the endless bikeshed that could come from such a list.  However, it is hard to imagine calling a platform "supported" without user, group, file, and directory also working.