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 We hope it provides a clear overview of our plans for future development. We welcome feedback, corrections, and suggestions via GitHub to make it more comprehensive, accessible, and valuable for the community.
 
+It's worth mentioning that we consider [upvotes (thumbs-up)](https://github.com/grafana/k6/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc) to be one of the essential metrics for determining community needs. If you want to show us the importance of a feature, please give it a thumbs-up.
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 ## Contribute
 
 If you want to contribute or help with the development of k6, start by reading [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). Before you start coding, it might be a good idea to first discuss your plans and implementation details with the k6 maintainers—especially when it comes to big changes and features. You can do this in the [GitHub issue](https://github.com/grafana/k6/issues) for the problem you're solving (create one if it doesn't exist).