And I am in no way asking for a fast-lane or special treatment. I would
just like to be able advertise this as:
"If we write the code, someone is going to look at it and helps to get
this merged for Bobcat."

I think that is a fair statement. Just note that others in the
community may not have a lot of time to co-develop on it.

We agreed to pick this up and implement the catalog zone support.
So expect a change to appear for review at some point ;-)

Just an update to our commitment:  We started working on the implementation.

Regards

Christian