Initial upload of roadmap for 2.7 (#41845)

* Initial upload of roadmap for 2.7

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+===========
+Ansible 2.7
+===========
+
+.. contents:: Topics
+
+Release Schedule
+----------------
+
+Expected
+========
+
+- 2018-09-06 Core Freeze (Engine and Core Modules/Plugins)
+- 2018-09-06 Alpha Release 1
+- 2018-09-13 Community Freeze (Non-Core Modules/Plugins)
+- 2018-09-13 Beta Release 1
+- 2018-09-27 Release Candidate 1
+- 2018-10-04 General Availability
+
+Cleaning Duty
+-------------
+
+- Drop Py2.6 for controllers
+- Remove dependency on simplejson
+
+
+Engine Improvements
+-------------------
+
+- Make ``become`` plugin based. `pr#38861 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/38861>`_ 
+- Introduce a ``live`` keyword to provide modules the ability to push intermediate (live) updates `pr#13620 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/13620>`_
+- Create a configuration object for a top level content installation path for modules, plugins, roles, etc. 
+- Investigate what it will take to utilise the work performed by Mitogen maintainers.
+- Provide sane connection defaults by platform `ansible_platform`.
+- Refactor connection/shell/action/terminal/become plugins to allow looser coupling and more mix-and-match behaviour.
+- Investigate performance improvements in using threads as opposed to forks.
+- Jinja native types will allow for users to render a Python native type. `pr#32738 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/32738>`_
+
+
+Core Modules
+------------
+
+- Include feature changes and improvements
+  
+  - Create new argument `apply` that will allow for included tasks to inherit explicitly provided attributes. `pr#39236 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39236>`_
+  - Create "private" functionality for allowing vars/default sot be exposed outside of roles. `pr#41330 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41330>`_
+
+- Provide a parameter for the `template` module to output to different encoding formats.
+- `reboot` module for Linux hosts
+
+Cloud Modules
+-------------
+
+General
+=======
+* Cloud auth plugin `proposal#24 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/24>`_
+
+AWS
+===
+* Inventory plugin for RDS
+* Count support for `ec2_instance`
+* `aws_eks` module `pr#41183 <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41183>`_
+* Cloudformation stack sets support
+* RDS instance and snapshot modules
+* Diff mode improvements for cloud modules
+
+Azure
+=====
+
+* Azure inventory plugin
+* Azure stack support for modules
+
+
+Network
+-------
+
+General
+=======
+
+* Refactor the apis in cliconf and netconf plugins so that they have a uniform signature across supported network platforms.
+
+Modules
+=======
+
+* New ``net_config`` module
+* New ``cli_command`` module
+* Refactor ``netconf_config`` module to add additional functionality. `#proposal#104 <https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/104>`_
+
+Windows
+-------
+
+General
+=======
+
+* Investigate the cause of WinRM HTTPS read timeouts
+* WinRM persistence
+* Experiment with OpenSSH + powershell
+
+Modules
+=======
+
+* `win_domain` and `win_domain_controller` action wrappers
+* Add link to `win_file`
+* Hostname change support for `win_domain` and `win_domain_controller`
+
+