Some thoughts:

The initial plan for promisification hinged on waiting until Node 8 (which bundled util.promisify) and then blanket converting all methods taking callbacks at once. From discussion in that issue, i think (and i agree with this perspective) that native promisification as a goal is more desirable than util.promisify, as it provides less of a band-aid over the issue and addresses it at the root.

However, this means that we can't, then, batch convert over all relevant methods at once, and need to do it in this more piecemeal manner. My proposal would be that we maintain a public project board with our progress on this issue, in addition to an issue in maintainers, and merge these piecemeal rather than bottleneck on each method being converted so that we can flag them all at once.

What are y'all's thoughts?

^convo continued in another issue

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