Development Tools and Future of Forge

Just a quick note on

Voting is nice, but pretty useless if it is not a fixed part of roadmap planning etc.
People usually expect something to happen if an issue get many votes.

Just one example:
We had voting in an older forge version. A really hard bug was voted (and watched) a lot. It took some years and a lot of effort by two Core devs to sort that things out. The voters/watchers where pinged multiple times to give feedback on the patch. Nobody cared. Not a single review.

So hitting the voting button is nice, but does not really reflect priorities or even sane suggestions.
“oh, somebody asked for converting all PHP to JavaScript. Sounds like a nice idea, should be tried by someone. [hits the +1 button]”.