Allow users to re-publish

This is a great little module and potentially just what I need for a current project. The one issue I see is that once a user "unpublishes" something, he/she can no longer get back to it. Potentially, this pushes content into a black hole that editor-type roles can't get it back from.

For the site I'm working on, I was going to create a view of unpublished content with the edit link. This would bypass the "Access Denied" when viewing the node and allow these roles to "republish" if needed.

The module would just need to create a "Republish" type button on unpublished nodes and handle that request. I'm writing some code for that now and will submit a patch, but I wanted to create the issue first. Any thoughts on this direction would be appreciated. Thanks!