[development] Node Weighting

[Jakob Petsovits]

On Thursday, 15. March 2007, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 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. 

Note that there are already two contrib modules that serve a similar purpose:
- Weight (http://drupal.org/project/weight), and
- nodeorder (http://drupal.org/project/nodeorder)

If you want to get this into Drupal core, you might fetch some ideas from 
those.