Short term roadmap/contributor access

[speedytwenty]

I'm seeking access [and any inapparent special instructions] to publish [npm] releases for cli-table3. @Turbo87 @DanielRuf

The short term roadmap is a bug-fix and feature additions release: v0.6.2. Followed later by a v0.6.3 release which hones in on performance—both speed and memory consumption—without breaking the API**. I'm not sure where Typescript support stands but I aim to know before v0.6.3 (#295).

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I've spent the last ~10 days methodically picking a couple years worth of low-hanging-fruit as well as getting pretty intimate with this entire package; including source, tests, dependencies, documentation, and documentation generation.

If granted, I will seek to automate and document the release process for ourselves and future contributors to include any of the following that may not already be present:

• Ensure tests (which include linting) are passing before release
• Ensure docs are generated and unchanged or included in release
• CHANGELOG.md is updated via lerna-changelog
• version in package.json is bumped appropriately

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Proposed (short-term) roadmap

v0.6.2

This will be a release of the latest fixes and feature additions—before further refactoring. Including:

• Rendering time reduced by 1/3 for large tables (100k cells render in 20 seconds instead of 120 seconds)
• Layout rendering nearly impenetrable (bug fix + awesome)!
• Links are now supported! (Hyperlink support for cells #292)
• Alternative word wrap! (Add wrapOnWordBoundary option for consistently readable word wrapping #217)
• Rudimentary debugging capabilities (Add debugging capabilities #288)
• Random table generation/performance testing script (Generate random basic/complex tables for performance testing and debugging. #294) for performance comparisons with the following version (see below)

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v0.6.3

potentially v0.7.0

Performance knockout!
This will reduce the rending time of cli-table3 by ~3,600% and memory usage will be minimized without breaking the API.

Custom cells
Cell will be heavily refactored and the API sanitized. Not sure how well it will be documented, but it will be possible to populate tables with custom cells that extend the [refactored] Cell.

**There may be "deep" API breakage in v0.6.3 for anyone that uses cli-table3's internal classes or functions.

[speedytwenty]

Noting, that I'm anticipating a breaking v0.7.0 release with #295. To continue supporting Node version 13.x is likely more hassle than it's worth. It could be avoided, but it probably makes sense to drop support for Node 13 to avoid dependency issues.

[Turbo87]

👋 @speedytwenty

sorry, I was on vacation. I just gave you publish permission on npm. thanks a lot for your work on this package! :)