web commit by JoshTriplett: Some of this works already.

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@@ -17,4 +17,17 @@ Each change would have its own wiki page under changes/revNNNN.
 Change queues would be wiki pages as well (probably using [[inlines|plugins/inline]]);
 [[Pagespecs|Pagespec]] and [[tags]] would be used to control the queues to which a given change would belong.
 
---[[JeremieKoenig]]
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+--[[JeremieKoenig]]
+
+> You can achieve something like this right now, by using Git.  The
+> development and published versions each have their own repository, with
+> remotes set up so they push either to two backend repositories or to two
+> different branches of the same backend repository.  You can then merge from
+> one to the other whenever you want.
+>
+> You could theoretically do this with SVN as well.
+>
+> I do like the idea you suggest of reviewing and merging changes through the
+> web interface, though.
+>
+> -- [[JoshTriplett]]