Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap

v0.1.0 - Pilot - Basic Bucket and Object Management

• OIDC Authentication support
  • IDIR and (nominal) Basic BCeID authentication support
• Basic Bucket lifecycle support
  • Permission and user management
  • List buckets
  • Add any S3 compatible bucket
  • Edit/configure buckets
• Basic Object lifecycle support
  • Permission and user management
  • List objects
  • Multi-object upload support
  • Object details support
  • Download single object
  • Soft delete object support
• Object sharing support
  • Public toggle
  • QR code and static URL support (both COMS and BCBox targets)
• Thorough QA and tech debt review
• Implements COMS v0.4.0 level functionality

v0.2.0 - MVP - Core Basic Object Management and Sharing

• Validate incoming bucket credentials
• Basic object filename search support
• Improve BCBox documentation
  • Implement landing home page
  • BCeID communications and materials reviewed by IDIM
  • Workable user manual and installation documentation
• UI Design/Accessibility guideline alignment
• Thorough QA and tech debt cleanup
  • Enforce Read permission bindings in permission modal
  • 50% code coverage on Store unit tests
  • Performance review
• Implements COMS v0.4.1 level functionality

v0.2.1 - COMS Metadata Alignment

• Align with coms-* metadata key change
• Implements COMS v0.4.2 level functionality

v0.3.0 - Version Management

• Clean up notification pop-up success/failure messages (toast notifications)
• Basic object versioning support
  • Update existing objects with new versions
  • Download specific object version
• Update an existing object and version management
• Handle navigation away from long uploads
• Clean up experience when adding multiple users in permission management at once
• Implements COMS v0.5.0 level functionality

v0.4.0 - Metadata and Tagging

• Basic Metadata and Tagging support
  • Add metadata/tags to objects and versions
  • Ad-hoc metadata/tag editing
  • Privacy-masked reverse-search discoverability support
  • Metadata and tag filtering in object list
• Allow bucket managers to delete buckets from database
• Implements COMS v0.6.0 level functionality

v0.5.0 - Synchronization and Usability Improvements

• Buttons to initiate synchronization
• Simplify bucket configuration process
• Additional accessibility requirements and minor UI improvements
• Implements COMS v0.7.0 level functionality

From usability research results: prepare options for "hierarchy" of files (for next release)

v0.6.0 - Nested Buckets

• Bucket tree view to mirror a folder hierarchy
• Easier workflow to create nested buckets
• Various Usability improvements
  • Improved warning messages
  • Add multiple users' permissions with fewer clicks
  • CSS inheritance fixes and a better layout on smaller screens

v0.7.0 - Invite Links, Pagination and Synchronization Dates

• Add support for paginated object listing
• Provide visibility into last synchronization date and last version modified date
• Implement Magic Invite flow for deferred resource access granting

TBD - Feature ideas only - subject to further feedback

Higher interest:

• Manage/Share files as a bundle better
• Reuse filenames that were previously deleted
• Apply permissions to many files at once - multi-file permissions
• Add users to a bucket in bulk

Unknown interest:

• Improve transition behavior
• Provide custom metadata template (BCGov standards)
• Hard delete; improve deleted file behavior
• Work with objects in a group - multi-file tagging
• Public user access to File Details