I would like to start the discussion around Cordova's planning for deprecating Node 6.x and Node 8.x as well as starting to support Node 12.x.
Since Node 6.x is being deprecated by the end of this month, I am not expecting drastic action. Additionally, Node 8.x is expected to be deprecated by December. IMO, we could hold out till December to deprecate both versions and just warn users about our recommendation to upgrade in the meantime. These notices and warnings can be added in April and September as a patch or minor release. As a side note, I suspect Android Q's release (August?) and possible iOS (Sept?) to be out before December. For a major release for these new platforms, adding Node will fall in nicely. Blog Post PR: https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs/pull/965 GH Issue Ticket: https://github.com/apache/cordova/issues/79