New Modules
Node Tracker
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It sounds like there's two things here:
1) The Publishing Options. Right now there's a hard coded set: Promote, Sticky, Moderated, Published, etc. You want this to be an arbitrary list that you can add to and filter on programmatically and via the UI. Big +1 here.
2) Value-add modules. A lot of modules already have this sort of "Add stuff to", but they each implement their own method and UI for doing so. Event, Location, and OG come to mind. A shared API for that would be very nice.
#2 operates on node types. Option #1 operates on nodes, but via #2 on only nodes of selected types.
Yeah, this sounds like an API module of some sort, perhaps even something that could eventually end up in core if it's thin enough. It could also provide a common UI location for Event, OG, etc. on the node-configure form. "Enable the following value-adds for this node type: Event, Location, OG, Case Tracker".