[development] Node Weighting

[Earnie Boyd]

Currently there is no method other than modifying the publishing date 
to order a node.  This becomes important mainly with the Top Sticky 
flag where the node is meant to provide first experience data.  I would 
like to consider adding to the Publishing Options a Node Weight to add 
to the sorting criteria for the node display.  I am thinking this node 
weight is only pertinent to the nodes with Sticky flag set but may be 
easier to implement for all settings.  Do others see Node Weighting as 
beneficial?

Earnie
P.S.: This work would be for some future release beyond 6.x
P.P.S.: I am not asking anyone else to do the work