Waku Project Management

Tracks/coordinate effort/tasks that targets Waku as a product across implementations (production readiness, scalability, etc).

Teams

The Waku Team is currently split in the following subteams:

• Waku Research
• Waku Development (nwaku, js-waku, go-waku)
• Waku Eco Dev (DevRel, Docs)

Work Tracking and Reporting Guidelines

Requirements

The current reporting requirements are 2 folds:

1. Weekly Reporting

Weekly reporting by subteam of progress on milestones. See https://notes.status.im/waku-2023-report as the initiating document

2. Monthly Reporting

Monthly reporting is currently done in a private Google Sheet and has the following sections:

• Progress on yearly milestones (10 milestones as defined in https://notes.status.im/Uz9HeCwZTDSYyOq36Q54cA#, now marked as Epics).
• Key achievements/highlights of previous month
• Planned achievement for next month
• RAID: Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies
• Identified Market Opportunities

The Google Sheet will soon be replaced by a dashboard that extract data using GitHub with the ability to organise the data by epic using GitHub labels.

Terminology

Name	Number of	Timeframe	Team Scope	Description
Priority Track	3-5	Set yearly	Whole Team	Focus set for the year, must be aligned with Logos Collective's priorities.
Epic	2-3 per Priority Track, total<=10	Set yearly, delivered quarterly-ish	Several subteams	Identified deliverables for each Priority Track.
Milestone	Some per Epic	Set quarterly-ish, delivered monthly	One subteam	Steps to deliver an Epic.
Task	Many per Milestone	Set monthly-ish, delivered weekly	One individual	Smallest chunk of work to be delivered.

GitHub Usage

For each:

• Epic, there is a GH issue under the https://github.com/waku-org/pm repo.
• Epic, there is a label with format E:<year>-<epic title> created across all relevant https://github.com/waku-org/ repos.
• Milestone, there is a GH issue under the relevant https://github.com/waku-org/ repo with related Epic label and milestone label assigned.
• Task, there is a GH issue and/or pull request under the relevant https://github.com/waku-org/ repo with related Epic label.

Hence, correct Epic label must be assigned to all GH issues/pull requests representing a Milestone or Task. This will enable the usage of the new reporting dashboard and reduce manual maintenance.

Ideally, every:

• Epic GH issue contains a list of planned Milestones.
• Milestone GH issue contains list of planned and completed Tasks.

Work Tracking per Year

2023

Priority Tracks: https://notes.status.im/Uz9HeCwZTDSYyOq36Q54cA#a

Epics (WIP):

• https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/25 E:2023-light-protocols