The Symfony repository has +700 pending issues. Now that we have a cool new Symfony Core Team maybe it's time to do some voting on the most important and long-standing issues.

To simplify the team members work, I've selected in this issue some of the oldest but most relevant issues and pull requests (obviously this is a subjective selection):

Pull Requests that just propose ideas but have none or little code

• Central repository for validators/form types #2280 Central repository for validators/form types
• [Translation] Add support for the MessageFormatter class #6009 [Translation] Add support for the MessageFormatter class (to allow translations based in several conditions, such as the gender of the person)
• More fine-grained configuration for some core services #6849 More fine-grained configuration for some core services

Relevant Pull Requests (some of them almost finished)

• HttpCache files getting too big #4871, [WIP] [2.2] [HttpKernel] added commands to clear, cleanup and introspect the HttpCache #6213, [2.3] [WIP][HttpCache] StoreHouseKeepingInteface #6855 [HttpKernel] allow to delete and introspect HttpCache cached resources
• [WIP][Security] Added Ldap provider #5189 [Security] Added Ldap provider
• [Routing] allow URLs to be generated that include the default param #5410 [Routing] allow URLs to be generated that include the default param
• [FrameworkBundle] bundle:install / remove commands #6082, dynamic "code" loading #9341 [FrameworkBundle] allow to install / uninstall / load / unload bundles dynamically