Status of ideas

If it’s something that should be done within the administration screen, you can probably get some inspiration from what we used to have a mini workflow for the WordCamp Paris 2016 :

See https://github.com/imath/wc-talk/blob/master/WP_PLUGIN_DIR/wp-idea-stream-custom.php#L1222

If you need post meta, the plugin comes with an API, so you can probably get some inspiration of what we did for the targeted Audience and the level required by the talk:
https://github.com/imath/wc-talk/blob/master/WP_PLUGIN_DIR/wp-idea-stream-custom.php#L962

I also advise you to read this wiki page, it explains how to add custom functions to WP Idea Stream:
https://github.com/imath/wp-idea-stream/wiki/wp-idea-stream-custom.php