Support for lifecycle information

With the increasing number of modules and their variations and classification, it would be useful to "customers" (i.e. drupal.org users) if project maintainers could include a standard lifecycle chart with their modules.

This could be done in a number of ways, but a seemingly efficient way would be to define a specific tag that could be used in project nodes to include such information. In effect, it would probably just be a pre-layout table with specific classes for the lifecycle stages. To produce something like the attached image, it could go like (sample taken from one of my modules):

Such markup would allow :

• future milestones to be automatically (de-)italicized over time,
• the lifecycle chart to automatically include the date of chart update
• avoiding additional work for the maintainer unless he actively wants to change something
• computed cell merging instead of having to hand-tune HTML markup
• user-depended date and time formatting

Or we could even go fancy and generate this as graphics.