[RFC] Roadmap (towards first public release)

[mssun]

Recently, we (some core contributors) have a small offline discussion on the roadmap towards first public release. In this meeting, we discussed what components and features are still missing as a boarder public release.

Here is a brief summary of features and components need to be designed and implemented. I'm trying to outline in bullet points, so some may not be very concise.

These are things we'd better to have in the first release:

• support function and data registration
  • input data of a function can be fetched from external storage
  • a better function attestation mechanism to attest Python script
  • reuse registered function in new tasks
• redesign function development workflow
  • developers only need to write python script with native libraries written in Rust
• provide persistent database implementation
  • port rusty-leveldb
  • add dedicated database service for data persistency
• support protobuf compatible RPC protocol
  • refactor existing service protocol with .proto files
• provide a more flexible access control mechanism with ACS
  • multi-owner for data fusion results
• support distributed workers
  • support docker deployment
• support customized workers
  • service provider can deploy with other kinds of customized workers besides builtin worker
• support TPM-based workers
• support basic automatic Rust code auditing
• better documentation
• better error handling
  • errors can be propagated through RPC
  • better error triage
• testsuite cleanup/refactoring
• implement more built-in functions
• community
  • more external contributors (regularly code/doc contributions and feedbacks)
  • accessibility (docs, guideline, open roadmap, etc)
  • meetup

These are nice to have in the first release:

• k8s deployment
• support more flexible attestation mechanisms (DCAP)
• provide trusted logging service for better auditing
• RPC enhancement
  • HTTP-based RPC
  • multi-language client
• workload evaluation benchmark

[mssun]

I have updated the original post of roadmap to reflex current status in the develop branch.

[mssun]

Hi folks, thank you for spending days and nights to redesign and implement the refreshed Teaclave platform in an open way.

I just updated the roadmap today and checked some items which has been already done. Few items are still not checked, I'm wondering if these are really needed to be included in the first public release. Anyway, I have added cross lines on items which I think is not necessary. The next step is to continue polishing existing features and provide more documents. Feel free to comments on what features are still missing for the public release.

At last, thanks again, without your contribution we cannot have current achievements!

[mssun]

Hi all, we follow this roadmap and finish most of the refactoring and features. I'm closing this issue and plan to initiate and official Apache incubator release. Thanks for all contributors.