Some goals and a roadmap for moving forward

[junderw]

Goals

• Create an open roadmap
  • Make use of the Project tools / milestones on Github so that other contributors can participate.
• Add contributors guide
  • Will help allow new devs to pick up issues and make Pull Requests
• Migrate to TypeScript
  • Type safety has been a top priority for bitcoinjs-lib, and typeforce has served this purpose well, however, TypeScript linters and compile-time errors will help reduce the possibility for bugs.
• Foster a larger dev community
  • Hold events, hackathons focusing on BitcoinJS
• Migrate to Monolithic repository style
  • Also, repackage on npm to use the @bitcoinjs namespace.
  • Start by slowly packing up bipxx type repositories, and work from there.
• Lightning Support
  • LND wrapper
  • TypeScript Native Lightning implementation

Schedule

Item	Who	When (Pull Request)
Create Open Roadmap	Jonathan	2019/2 ~
Add contributors guide	Jonathan	2019/2 ~
Migrate to TypeScript	Jonathan	2019/1/18 (DONE)
Foster Larger Dev Community	Jonathan	2019/2 ~
Migrate to Monolithic	Jonathan	2019/1 ~ 2019/3 (slowly)
Lightning Support	Jonathan	2019/2 ~

Versions

• v4.x
  • Moving to ES6, witness block support etc. (Pull requests open currently)
• v5
  • Moving to TypeScript should be a new major version, as there is a large possibility of breaking changes, so bump to v5.

[jasonandjay]

@junderw Some things have been done, i think you can update this and add content for version 7.0.0