Roadmap

🗺️ FlossPay Roadmap: Catalyst Phases & Milestones

How FlossPay Moves from MVP to Full-Stack, Linux-Grade OSS

This page gives you a transparent, contributor-ready breakdown of how FlossPay will evolve from its first MVP to a production-grade, multi-rail, SRE-ready payments stack.
We use the CATALYST 0-FLOSS framework for compounding project maturity.
Current Status: Phase 1 (Advanced Transaction Features)

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🚦 Phase-by-Phase Breakdown

Phase	Branches / Focus	Core Deliverables	Industry Mapping	Status
Phase 1 (MVP)	main, feature/advanced-tx-feat	Retry logic, DLQ, Idempotency, Audit trail, API rate-limiter, HMAC auth → Webhook callbacks & Circuit Breaker	Bank-grade reliability, PCI-DSS/SOC2	🟢 HERE
Phase 1.5 (Rails)	feature/rails-modules	Pluggable Cards, Wallets, Net-Banking, Crypto, BNPL rails	True aggregator infra, multi-rail	🚧 Planned
Phase 2 (TestOps)	test/TestOps-performance_metrics, feature/advanced-api-hardening	Load & soak testing, chaos suite, mutation testing, replay/fraud resistance	Stripe/AWS QA, Linux Foundation	🚧 Planned
Phase 2.5 (Docs)	ship/documentation-suite, ship/e2e-documentation	Full enterprise-grade documentation, UML, ADRs, forensics	Audit/interview, compliance	🚧 Planned
Phase 2.9 (OSSify)	ship/advanced-ossify	Badges, CODEOWNERS, advanced governance, contributor guides	Community trust, governance	🚧 Planned
Phase 3 (DevOps)	feature/devops	CI/CD, Docker/Compose, release automation, security supply chain	Prod-ready, audit, cloud-native	🚧 Planned
Phase 3.5 (IaC/Plat)	feature/iac-k8s-aws-deployment	Terraform, Helm, K8s manifests, RBAC, cloud automation	Vendor-neutral, SRE, Platform Engg	🚧 Planned
Phase 4 (SRE/Obs)	feature/sre-monitoring	Prometheus SLOs, Grafana dashboards, alerting, chaos, runbooks	Real SRE/observability, prod ops	🚧 Planned
Release v3+	release/v3	Cloud-ready, Linux-grade, all rails, full SRE/observability	Linux Foundation OSS standard	🚧 Planned

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🧭 Phase Explanations

Phase 1: MVP + Advanced Transaction Features

• Current Status: You are here
• Core Deliverables:
  • Retry logic (backoff, DLQ)
  • Idempotency (UUID, HMAC)
  • Immutable audit trail (Postgres, SHA-256)
  • API rate limiter (token bucket)
  • HMAC authentication (RFC 2104)
  • → Upcoming: Webhook callbacks, Circuit Breakers
• Impact:
  • Foundation for real bank/FI-grade reliability
  • Passes most compliance checklists for MVP

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Phase 1.5: Payment Rails Expansion

• Pluggable support for:
  • Cards (Visa/Mastercard/RuPay)
  • Wallets (Paytm, PhonePe, AmazonPay, etc.)
  • Net-Banking (IMPS, NEFT, RTGS)
  • Crypto rails
  • BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later)
• Why it matters:
  • No vendor lock-in; real aggregator status
  • Every rail is a modular plug-in—never rewrites core stack

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Phase 2: TestOps & Security Hardening

• Full TestOps/QA pipeline:
  • Load & soak testing (1k+ TPS)
  • Mutation/fault injection, chaos suite, non-happy-path E2E
  • Advanced HMAC, replay/fraud resistance
• Goal:
  • Stripe/AWS-level reliability, proven in adversarial scenarios

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Phase 2.5: Documentation Suite

• Docs for:
  • UML/sequence diagrams
  • Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
  • Threat modeling, forensics, onboarding guides
  • Contributor handbook, FAQ, troubleshooting
• Why:
  • Enterprise onboarding, compliance, and trust

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Phase 2.9: OSSify & Governance

• Ship:
  • OSS badges, advanced PR/issue templates, CODEOWNERS, contributor docs, code of conduct
• Result:
  • Peer review, trust, and a community-driven future

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Phase 3: DevOps / Platform Engineering

• Build:
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
  • Docker/Compose, supply-chain attestation, release automation
• Goal:
  • Zero-touch, auditable deployments—cloud or on-prem

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Phase 3.5: Infrastructure as Code / Platform Engg

• Ship:
  • Terraform, Helm, K8s manifests, RBAC
  • Vendor-neutral, multi-cloud deployment
• Enables:
  • Real SRE/ops handoff, no vendor lock-in

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Phase 4: SRE, Observability & Cloud Testing

• Add:
  • Prometheus SLOs, Grafana dashboards
  • Alerting, runbooks, chaos engineering, incident response
• Result:
  • Production-grade, real-time monitoring and incident management

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🏁 Release Tags

• v1: UPI MVP, basic audit/compliance
• v2: Multi-rail, advanced audit, wiki/docs
• v3: SRE, cloud, production-ready, Linux Foundation OSS standard

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📣 Want to Contribute?

• Check open issues labeled good first issue or help wanted
• Propose your own rails as plug-ins
• Docs, QA, and code review always welcome

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Questions or ideas? Open a GitHub Discussion or create an RFC! This roadmap is living and always open to contributor input.

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FlossPay—one stack, all rails. MVP to Linux-grade OSS.
You are here: [Phase 1, Advanced Transaction Features]