I can see use case here and also see how it departs from “solved”
In particular you would allow multiple posts to be “featured” in the OP:
Jane "pm" 2 hours ago: We will be looking at this [v expand]
Jill "dev" 1 hour ago: I am working on a fix [v expand]
@codinghorror I wonder if this is core feature, aka “Pin post..” complete with “how long you want to pin it” or in the far to rare department and should be a discourse-pinned-posts plugin.
Personally it feels like a discourse-pinned-posts plugin to me, but it shares lots of DNA with discourse-solved so we would need to be careful about code duplication here.