In the early days, the Node.js community was composed by a small set of individual that learned to trust each other. Those individuals now maintains a high number of packages that are part of everyone dependency tree. Now, more complex software is being built and released on NPM on top of those tiny utilities, and the authors struggle to keep up with updates on their dependencies. Which challenges are the maintainers on both set face?

1. Building a community around an Open Source is a different job compared to writing a tiny module. Moreover, creating a community around a single utility is extremely hard. What strategies can we recommend to grow this community? Should we recommend that these utility be moved into a bigger organization (all streams module should move to github.com/node-streams for example) to simplify maintenance?
2. Managing changes in Node.js and dependencies is hard. Whenever there is a breakage that is fixed in a semver-major release, it’s highly possible that a stream of semver-major updates on all the dependency on a given tree. In some cases, CITGM is not broad enough to catch those breakages when a new version of Node.js happens.
3. There are two main trends in supporting different Node.js versions in the ecosystem: support ALL of them (express) or support only the LTS version. Is there a common strategy that we could recommend? The LTS cadence is dictated by Node.js.
4. Framework authors have often the challenge of testing the ecosystem for breakage of their dependents. Currently there is no such tool that helps in that regard.
5. Providing support for the user is a tough job and some project have an unchecked issue tracker because of this. How it is possible to migate this problem? What strategy should we recommend?