Merge requests are a place to propose changes you've made to a project and discuss those changes with others
Interested parties can even contribute by pushing commits if they want to.
We have started the release process and entered Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze for v2021.5. From this moment only bug fixes will be accepted for this release cycle. Other type of changes will be postponed to v2021.6. We have started the release process and entered Soft Feature Freeze for v2022.1. From this moment no additional features will be accepted for this release cycle. New features will be postponed to v2022.2.
More info: v2021.5 release schedule v2022.1 release schedule
Interested parties can even contribute by pushing commits if they want to.