Product Roadmap

Below is a rough outline of the features that we are targeting for COMS.

v0.1.0 - Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

General

• General Documentation
• Database action auditing
• Over 50% coverage in unit tests

Authentication

• Multiple authentication modes
  • Unauthenticated
  • Basic
  • OIDC
  • Full (Basic and OIDC)
• Support multiple identity providers (eg: IDIR, BCeID)

Object Operations

• Upload multiple objects to storage
• Expiring object download links
• Object versioning and history

Permission Management

• Share objects
• Search for OIDC users
• Toggle object for public access
• Update and manage object permissions

v0.2.0 - Version Tracking

• Explicit version management
• Soft-delete objects
• Enhance validation layer support

v0.3.0 - Metadata & Tagging

• Object metadata
• Object tagging
• Object discovery via metadata/tagging

v0.4.0 - Multi-tenant Bucket support

• Multi-bucket support
• Database refactor
• Permission cascade/inheritance refactor
• API shape extensions

v0.4.1 - Reliability Pass

• Improve architectural documentation
• Refactor objection model mock pattern; improve unit test coverage
• Validate bucket credentials on add and allow folder key to be optional
• Performance improvements

v0.4.2 - Domain Scoped Metadata Keys

• Change mandatory metadata keys to be domain scoped

v0.5.0 - Filename Support

• Support arbitrary filenames for S3 Objects
• Add First Nations glyph support to filenames
• Track and enforce coms-id as an S3 tag
• Deprecate coms-id and coms-name S3 metadata enforcement
• Add tracking support for version-specific S3 ETags

v0.6.0 - File Transit

• Add new PUT endpoints for uploading files
• Extend filesize limit from 50GB to 5TB
• Add more consistent error responses for upload failure situations

v0.7.0 - Synchronization

• Bucket and object synchronization support
  • Add retroactive backfill for existing S3 buckets and directories
  • Retroactive bucket and object database population
  • Implement merge-conflict logic for data collision scenarios
  • Add global synchronization support for coms-id tags
  • Add proactive coms-id tag annotation support for objects
  • Add status probe endpoint for synchronization
• Fix request timeouts from large file uploads
• Remove metadata key/value length constraints
• RFC 7807 error reporting compliance

v0.8.0 - Invite Links, Pagination and S3 Public synchronization

• Add paginated object search support
• Add public permission tracking support from S3 Object ACL endpoints
• Track S3 last modified date on versions
• Add bucket last synchronized date and object last synced date
• Add children bucket creation support
• Improve environment variable support for recognizing truthy string representations
• Add invite link deferred permission grant support (READ)
• Security improvements and various bugfixes

v0.9.0 - Continuous Improvement

• Add additional permissions to invite link

TBD - Feature ideas only - subject to further feedback

• TBD