Co-authored-by: Jean Burellier [email protected]

Signed-off-by: Michael Dawson [email protected]

This PR is a result of work done by the Next-10 team - https://github.com/nodejs/next-10 and those who participated in the mini-summit - nodejs/next-10#76.

The goal is to agree on a documented set of priorities that we believe are important to the future success of Node.js. Submitting this PR is intended to get review/discussion from the broader collaborator base and then serve to document the consensus we reach.

One of the follow on efforts will be to document what we should be/are doing for each of the priorities and to figure out the best way to capture and share the info.

For some of the priority areas we already have people doing what's needed (for example a big thank you to @targos for all his work on keeping v8 up to date which supports "Up to date ES JavaScript Support" and reporting on it as a strategic initiative - https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/guides/strategic-initiatives.md. Another good example is ongoing work related to https://github.com/nodejs/undici by @ronag and @mcollina.

For other areas the Next-10 team is planning a deeper dive to discuss/capture specific items/work that we believe the project should be doing to support that priority. If people comment on this issue that they'd like to be involved in the discussion of specific priorities we will at mention when we set up the session for the deep dive on that topic.

As always the the work done going forward will depend on what individual collaborators have time to prioritize. It is still important for us as a project to have a documented agreement on the key priorities we think are important so that we can promote and support collaboration on these priorities.

We are looking forward to your comments/input on the priorities listed in the PR and would also welcome people joining the next-10 effort to keep things moving forward. We currently have this doodle open to find a new meeting time so if you are interested please add your info: https://doodle.com/poll/a46canyfppq9mcht?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link