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Areca Backup - Roadmap

The following stages are intended to extend the lifespan of Areca.

Last update: 2024-10-21

[ ] Not started
[/] Work in progress
[X] Finished

Stage 1 - Preserve Areca project

[X] Create a (Git) repository from its source code releases.
[X] Recover the no longer available online documentation (Olivier Petrucci's original site).

Stage 2 - Fix build pipeline and errors that prevent Areca from running on current systems

Stage 2 requires stage 1.

[X] Fix Areca launchers
[X] Support for the current Java LTS versions [8, 11, 17, 21]
[X] Add missing assets for building release bundles
[X] Fix build pipeline
[X] Fix Check for new version ... feature.

Stage 3 - Set up a development environment

Stage 3 requires stage 2.

[/] Analyze whether built-in Areca tests are up-to-date and comprehensive enough.
[/] Black box testing (functional and non-functional)
[ ] Static code analysis
[ ] Unit Testing
[ ] Code Coverage
[/] Create dev's documentation

Stage 4 - Fixes and new features

Stage 4 requires stage 2 and can be done in parallel with stage 5.
It also requires stage 3 for fixes and for adding new features whose changes may have dangerous side effects.

[X] Support for embedded JREs/JDKs and JAVA_HOME
[X] Broken links to online documentation.
[/] Support additional platforms
[X] Support for column sorting
[/] Update user's documentation
[ ] Translations

May require some objectives of stage 3

[/] Update all Java dependencies.
[/] Identify and try to fix reported unfixed bugs in https://sourceforge.net/p/areca/bugs/
[ ] Identify interesting requested new features in https://sourceforge.net/p/areca/feature-requests/