Roadmap

This is a rough roadmap for the future of Kinto. At the end of each item, you can find which project it is attached to, and which use-case it is serving.

Ordered by importance:

#P1

• Have a unique home for the ecosystem kinto community
• Add a crypto layer in kinto.js
• Documentation / Onboarding / Persona Rails

#P2

• Get in touch with communities
• Built-in main OAuth providers
• User token management for permissions delegation.
• fetchLimit for sync

Not prioritised:

• Document how to map from an email to a FxA id kinto (required for perms in kinto.js)
• Handle permissions in kinto.js kinto.js
• Sync over WebRTC
• Synchronise existing IndexedDB
• Bridge between offline-first protocols on client side.

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2017

#1

• Partial collection signing / sync
• Scaling production

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2016

#1 ✓

• Support service discovery kinto internship
• Notifications documentation
• Signing collections and integrity kinto.js go faster
• Find potential hosting services
• Plug notifications on transactions
• File attachment in kinto admin
• Expose Kinto server capabilities (installed plugins)

#2 ✓

• Transaction for incoming data kinto.js
• Create collections and buckets in kinto admin
• Edit collection schema in kinto admin
• Server to server replication
• Kinto logo
• proxy search on indexed content
• Cursor based query for IndexDB kinto.js

#3 ✓

• Size quotas plugin kinto
• Permissions in kinto-admin
• History / review changes kinto-admin
• Plugin system for kinto-admin
• Move Gecko storage adapter to mercurial kinto.js
• Attachments helpers kinto-http.js

#4

• Notifications by email plugin kinto
• WebPush integration plugin kinto
• Honour Backoff and Retry After headers on client side
• → Authorship on records (via history)

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2015

#1 ✓

• Rename cliquetis to kinto.js kinto.js
• Implicit creation of collections in personal buckets kinto
• fix compatibility with kinto kinto.js kinto
• Add default user buckets kinto

#2 ✓

• Add service to service authentication kinto kinto.py (basic auth works)
• Have a python client kinto.py payments
• create a cliquet backend for sync cliquet sync
• handle conflict/validation errors (on uniqueness for batch) kinto.js
• Add pagination + batch limit on the client + server kinto kinto.js

#3 ✓

• write demonstration applications (kept for firefox os) kinto community
• improve documentation and tutorials kinto cliquet community
• Add schema validation kinto
• Permissions on records + GET collection cliquet payments
• Allow storing data on collections go faster kinto
• Modify collection attributes kinto.js AMO

#4 ✓

• Notifications kinto sync go faster browser.html
• kinto web admin console kwac
• file attachments
• formbuilder (lib)

Protocol v2

• Split attributes and metadata (id, last_modified, schema, attachment)
• Switch timestamp from integer to string
• Timestamps should not be based on current clock, use a safe and robust sequence
• Rename last_modified to timestamp in records
• Hide permissions when to permission to read
• Batch response status and transaction rollback
• Existing record in conflict responses should be nested in data