ffsend/ROADMAP.md

Alpha release 0.0.1 (private feedback)

The first release used for gathering feedback on the application by selected people.

Features:

• Do not show default values for --host, see ffsend help upload
• History clear command
• Ask to remove a file when downloading failed
• Polish command outputs, make it consistent (format, color)
• Automated releases through CI
• Release binaries on GitHub
• Ubuntu PPA package
• Gentoo portage package
• Arch AUR package
• Windows, macOS and Redox support
• Implement verbose logging with -v
• Make use of stdout and stderr consistent
• Allow empty owner token for info command
• Check and validate all errors, are some too verbose?

Beta release 0.1 (public)

The first public release.

Features:

• Do not write archives to the disk (temporarily), stream their contents
• Implement error handling everywhere properly
• Extract utility module
• Embed/wrap request errors with failure
• Box errors
• Allow piping input/output files
• Allow hiding the progress bar, and/or showing simple progress (with -q)
• Implement a quiet -q mode
• Update all dependencies
• Check all TODOs, solve them when possible
• Allow multi file uploads (select more than one file or directory)

Future releases

• Color usage flag
• A status command, to check the server status using /__version__ and heartbeat endpoints
• Host configuration file for host tags, to easily upload to other hosts

Other ideas

• Check if extracting an archive overwrites files
• Flag to disable logging to stderr
• Rework encrypted reader/writer
• API actions contain duplicate code, create centralized functions
• Only allow file extension renaming on upload with -f flag
• Quick upload/download without upload or download subcommands?
• Flag to explicitly delete file after download
• Allow file deletion by consuming all download slots
• Download to a temporary location first
• Document all code components
• Dotfile for default properties
• Generate man pages
• Rename host to server?
• Ask to add MIME extension to downloaded files without one on Windows
• Fetch max file size from server/jsconfig.js
• Define a redirect policy (allow setting max redirects)
• Support servers that are hosted on a sub path (URL builder resets path)