I'll have to review my blog again; I should have included the following two things for making a Mer rootfs chroot-friendly in Maemo:

• In the chroot: mkdir /home/user and chown user:users /home/user
• You then have to synch the chroot. I did it manually, but you can use the /sbin/synchroot script, as long as you set the /home/user/.chroot file to point to the Mer mountpoint. You can get this to happen automatically by typing in Maemo terminal, touch /home/user/.synchroot

As for bringing forward Easy Mer, I'm waiting to see what Mer .13 brings. I want to give them one version to sort out what the Fremantle Beta release can give them.