How about to add stars to
issue list view in the meanwhile? It allows to see what's important for people.
It can be done from the admin page at
http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/adminIssues by changing `List and grid preferences` line to:
ID Cat Type Status Priority Stars Milestone Owner Summary
The sorting order can be adjusted there by stars too.
Some ideas to free more horizontal space for issue description:
1. Rename ContributorNeeded status to NeedsHelp
2. Shorten the `Milestone` column name to Mstone and values to just next version to be released (like in
Chromium tracker).
3. Shorten `Priority` column as well and leave numbers like P1-P5 where P1 is a top priority (like in PySide)