Can the PLAYER_RESPAWN event be made high priority?

I'm noticing a lot of plugin requests relating to the spawn, from customization by the player, allowing players to keep a certain number of items, to having two opposing teams spawn in their own bases, to populating different areas of the map with new players.

Most of these plug-ins have interested developers, but nobody has built the event, and nobody is working on it due to it's priority being only medium.

http://redmine.bukkit.org/issues/144