Maintainers Should Consider Following Node.js’ Release Schedule

tldr; Node.js has a tried and true release schedule, supporting LTS versions for 30 months. It offers significant benefits to the community for library maintainers to follow this same schedule:

• ensuring the ability to take security patches.
• reducing the burden on maintainers.
• allowing module authors to take advantage of new platform features sooner.

My opinion of what Node.js versions library maintainers should aim to support has evolved over the…