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So it's not an announcement about your own work, but just a request for someone else to create the packages.

It is the way the CL team recommends to have applications made available for their distro, by having it officially added to their collection of bundles. Please see the CL website for more information on that. 

Just be prepared if other do try it and have issues you'll be "the guy" that will have to answer the questions. So that'll be via your own experience or conversing with the CL guys.

I understand your concern, and appreciate your warning, but I think you missed the point a bit. Or perhaps I was not clear enough myself. For me this is not about introducing a new platform for LinuxCNC as an alternative to Debian or whatever. It is about curiosity to see if  LinuxCNC would in any way benefit from the advantages that CL claims to bring with their processor tuned and performance optimized distro. If it does, then that would be interesting. The same applies to those, including myself, who have been playing around with RPI, Orange Pi, Arch Linux and other flavors of hardware, operating systems, desktop Environments, LinuxCNC GUIs, etc. Without curiosity the world will never progress. True, for x86/AMD64 platforms we may be best off with Debian and I certainly believe that too, but exploring alternative ways can be interesting nevertheless. 

I know bein tied to one distro is not the Linux way it is what it is.

Well, better one Linux distro than one MS-Windows 

As for you find something insulting or not, that's a you issue, you make that decision, pretty much as being offended, that's a you decision. If I was be be insulting I'd either be extremely crass or attempt a Htichenesque type of insult. (Christopher Hitchens btw)

There is certainly some truth in that statement. But communication and perception is never truly a "you issue". It is a sender, channel and receiver issue, where many factors influence how a transmitted message is being perceived. That is why emails and online posts, including here on this forum, are always a bit tricky and why many forums have a code of conduct. But I guess in this particular case it was mainly me perceiving things incorrectly, for which I apologize. As for Hitchens, a great mind, and not shy to challenge the established views and opinions. I like that