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This is nice. There are two things however that would make GitHub issues awesome:

1. Starring / Voting an issue. The count of stars/votes should be visible and we should have the ability to sort by the number of stars / votes.

2. Labels with values. Simple integers types would do to begin with. For example, priority:1, priority:2, etc. And then being able to sort by the value.

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We've long discussed voting. It probably definitely won't ever happen in the near future.

You can set create `priority:1`, `priority:2`, etc labels right now and sort by those values. Not quite the same as what you want, but it's a pretty close solution until we figure out the next features to add to Issues.

A bit sad, as a member of a big project on github, I'm sure that "starring" could be a handy way to know what people are interested in. (And avoid a lot of "me too"-comments, from devs and other users alike).

I think Google Code does this one right: "Subscribe" is a star and you get notified -- star counts are public. I hope github adopts that model.

Do you mean internal discussions? What is the main reason to not support voting?

Priorities are a necessity for large projects. One could use a full-fledged issue tracker, but having an integrated one in GitHub would be miles better.

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