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…