Roadmap

Roadmap

This document outlines the future development plans for the Giveaway Bot.

🚀 Planned Features

Data Management & Privacy

• Advanced GDPR Cleanup: Iterate known user IDs from active profiles to clean associated globals (currently relies on !giveaway data delete resolving IDs from active entries or command arguments).

💡 Potential Improvements

• Unified Event Bus: Refactor Messenger.SendBroadcast and CPHAdapter calls into a stricter event-driven architecture to decouple logic from Streamer.bot actions further.
• Cross-Profile Analytics: Add a command to generate aggregate stats across all profiles (e.g., total entries across "Daily" and "Weekly" giveaways).

🔧 Maintenance

• Unit Test Coverage: Expand TestRunner.cs to cover edge cases for the new Loc system and config loading logic.
• Documentation Localization: Translate USER_GUIDE.md into other languages if community demand arises.

📋 Backlog & Technical Debt

• Standardize Timer Usage: Consolidate System.Threading.Timer and System.Timers.Timer usage for consistency across the codebase.
• Refactor ObsController: Resolve static vs instance method confusion in ObsController to clarify the API and usage.
• Configuration Schema Validation: Implement stricter JSON schema validation during config load to prevent typos and invalid structures.
• Concurrency Stress Testing: Create specialized unit tests targeting race conditions (e.g., parallel entries vs draw) to verify robustness.
• Security Review: Evaluate the current Environment-based key derivation strategy for AES encryption to ensure it meets security requirements.

🔒 Technical Constraints

C# 7.3 Compatibility (Streamer.bot Runtime)

This project currently targets C# 7.3 and .NET Framework 4.8 due to Streamer.bot's embedded scripting runtime environment.

If Streamer.bot upgrades to a newer .NET runtime, this project will adopt modern C# features accordingly. Until then, we cannot use:

• ❌ C# 8.0+: Nullable reference types, pattern matching enhancements, using declarations, ??= operator, switch expressions
• ❌ C# 9.0+: Target-typed new expressions, records, init-only setters
• ❌ C# 10.0+: Global usings, file-scoped namespaces, record structs
• ❌ C# 11.0+: Required members, list patterns, raw string literals
• ❌ C# 12.0+: Primary constructors, collection expressions

Note: The .editorconfig file suppresses IDE suggestions for these features to reduce noise during development. These suppressions should be reviewed and removed when Streamer.bot updates its runtime.

Why This Matters

• Copy-Paste Deployment: The bot deploys as a single C# file directly into Streamer.bot's "Execute C# Code" action
• No Control Over Runtime: We cannot bundle or upgrade dependencies; we must match Streamer.bot's environment exactly
• Future-Ready: The architecture is designed to be upgrade-friendly when Streamer.bot evolves