docs: publish v8 roadmap (#1330)

docs/.vitepress/config.ts

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               text: 'Announcements',
               link: '/about/announcements',
               items: [
+                { text: '2022-09-08', link: '/about/announcements/2022-09-08' },
                 { text: '2022-01-14', link: '/about/announcements/2022-01-14' },
               ],
             },
+            {
+              text: 'Roadmap',
+              link: '/about/roadmap/',
+              items: [
+                { text: 'v8 - Make Faker Handier', link: '/about/roadmap/v8' },
+                {
+                  text: 'v7 - Cleanup & Improvements',
+                  link: '/about/roadmap/v7',
+                },
+                { text: 'v6 - Continue Faker', link: '/about/roadmap/v6' },
+              ],
+            },
             {
               text: 'Team',
               link: '/about/team',

docs/about/announcements.md

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 # Announcements
 
+- [2022-09-08 - New Roadmap Published](./announcements/2022-09-08)
 - [2022-01-14 - An update from the Faker team](./announcements/2022-01-14)

docs/about/announcements/2022-09-08.md

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+---
+editLink: false
+---
+
+# New Roadmap Published
+
+We haven't made any announcements for a long time, but we are happy to announce that we just published the new roadmap for v8.
+
+Our main focus for v8 is to make Faker more lightweight and flexible.
+A huge part of that is better tree shaking support.
+
+Currently, if you just want to generate some reproducible numbers, then you need the entire Faker package.
+First, you have to download almost 10MB of data (mostly locales; duplicated for ESM and CJS) and ship half of that (one of them).
+
+We wont tackle the download size for now,
+but we hope to reduce the shipped size significantly (deduplicate locale data) on our side and allow your build process to discard more unused methods and data.
+This should also improve js startup/parse times.
+
+If we are successful, you will only need a few KB of code for numbers and only the locales you need for more complex things such as names.
+With a bit of setup on your side, you can ship only the parts of the locale data you actually need.
+So no more finance data and mime-types, just for a first name.
+
+For more details refer to our roadmap:
+
+- [Roadmap - Overview](../roadmap/index.html)
+- [Roadmap v8 - Make Faker Handier](../roadmap/v8.html)

docs/about/roadmap/index.md

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+---
+editLink: false
+---
+
+# Roadmap
+
+These pages outline our roadmap for past and future versions.
+Click on the specific versions for more details.
+
+## Upcoming Versions
+
+- [v8 - Make Faker Handier](v8.html)
+
+## Previous Versions
+
+- [v7 - Cleanup & Improvements](v7.html)
+- [v6 - Continue Faker](v6.html)

docs/about/roadmap/v6.md

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+---
+editLink: false
+---
+
+# v6 - Continue Faker
+
+The main task of v6 is fixing technical debts and some cleanup.
+
+## v6.0 - Ensure project foundation
+
+- Rewrite project in TypeScript
+- Update dependencies and automate the process
+- Add/Extend build pipeline
+- Write JSDocs for most of the modules and methods
+- Add online documentation/website
+
+[v6.0 Tasks](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/milestone/1)
+
+**Releases**
+
+- [v6.0.0-alpha.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.0.0-alpha.0)
+- [v6.0.0-alpha.2](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.0.0-alpha.2)
+- [v6.0.0-alpha.3](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.0.0-alpha.3)
+- [v6.0.0-alpha.4](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.0.0-alpha.4)
+- [v6.0.0-alpha.5](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.0.0-alpha.5)
+- [v6.0.0-alpha.6](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.0.0-alpha.6)
+- [v6.0.0-alpha.7](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.0.0-alpha.7)
+- [v6.0.0-beta.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.0.0-beta.0)
+- [v6.0.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.0.0)
+
+## v6.1 - First Bugfixes
+
+- Fix bugs in the implementation and data
+- Standardize some method parameters
+- Deprecate duplicate methods
+- Extend unit tests
+- Link missing locales
+- Improve documentation
+
+[v6.1 Tasks](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/milestone/2)
+
+**Releases**
+
+- [v6.1.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.1.0)
+- [v6.1.1](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.1.1)
+- [v6.1.2](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.1.2)
+
+## v6.2 - First New Features
+
+- Introduce the first new features
+- Add/Update some locales
+- More cleanup
+
+[v6.2 Tasks](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/milestone/5)
+
+**Releases**
+
+- [v6.2.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.2.0)
+
+## v6.x
+
+Further improvements
+
+- [v6.3 Tasks](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/milestone/7)
+- [v6.x Tasks](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/milestone/3)
+
+**Releases**
+
+- [v6.3.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.3.0)
+- [v6.3.1](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v6.3.1)

docs/about/roadmap/v7.md

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+---
+editLink: false
+---
+
+# v7 - Cleanup & Improvements
+
+In v7 we will remove some methods that we have deprecated in v6 and restructure the sources a bit.
+It will be the first release with small breaking changes since we maintain it.
+
+## v7.0 - Structurally Breaking Changes
+
+- Remove deprecations
+- Remove faker default export
+- Target es2020
+- Drop Node v12 support
+- Reorganize source folder
+- More features
+
+[v7.0 Tasks](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/milestone/8)
+
+**Releases**
+
+- [v7.0.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v7.0.0)
+- [v7.0.1](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v7.0.1)
+
+## v7.x
+
+Further improvements
+
+- [v7.x Tasks](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/milestone/4)
+
+**Releases**
+
+- [v7.1.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v7.1.0)
+- [v7.2.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v7.2.0)
+- [v7.3.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v7.3.0)
+- [v7.4.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v7.4.0)
+- [v7.5.0](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/releases/tag/v7.5.0)

docs/about/roadmap/v8.md

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+---
+editLink: false
+---
+
+# v8 - Make Faker Handier
+
+Our main goal in v8 is to make Faker more lightweight and more flexible.
+
+## v8.0 - Module Re-Shuffling
+
+Finish the module shuffling.
+
+- Remove locale switching support
+- Move String and Number methods into own modules
+- Rename Name module to Person
+- Rename Address module to Location
+- Check modules and methods regarding their name and location
+- Try to eliminate circular dependencies in modules
+- Standardize function parameters and defaults
+- Rewrite image module / providers
+
+[v8.0 Tasks](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/milestone/10)
+
+## v8.1 - Split Faker Class
+
+Split the Faker class into smaller units so you don't have ship an entire locale if you only generate some strings and numbers.
+
+[v8.1 Tasks](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/milestone/11)
+
+## v8.x - Tree-Shakeable Module-Functions
+
+Refactor modules to be tree shakeable.
+Potentially allowing individual Faker methods to be called by themselves.
+
+[v8.x Tasks](https://github.com/faker-js/faker/milestone/12)