What happens to positively received meta feature requests? [duplicate]

Question

I recently added two positively received feature requests to this meta site:

• Don't lock votes on Meta sites
• Categorized views in past flags (helpful/declined/disputed)

On a given moment, these questions weren't 'hot' anymore, so nobody looks at them anymore - or that's how it looks to me. What happens to positively received feature requests and how long does that take, on average?

Answer 1

Now it's up to SE to evaluate your requests, determine their feasibility and respond. There are four potential responses:

• status-completed
• status-declined
• status-planned
• status-deferred

Regardless of the type of response, a SE employee will also typically post an answer with details on their reasoning. If you're lucky, the answer will simply be:

This will be in the next build

SE monitors the feature-request tag on all Metas, and that doesn't have much to do with the hotness of the question. I'm guessing highly upvoted requests take priority, but there's no guarantee that a highly upvoted request will be implemented.

Sometimes it takes them a while to respond, 6-8 weeks is the average.