<titledata-rh="true">Rules of Engagement | Waku</title><metadata-rh="true"name="viewport"content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"><metadata-rh="true"name="twitter:card"content="summary_large_image"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:url"content="https://waku.org/rules-of-engagement"><metadata-rh="true"name="docusaurus_locale"content="en"><metadata-rh="true"name="docsearch:language"content="en"><metadata-rh="true"name="keywords"content="waku, web3"><metadata-rh="true"name="image"content="https://waku.org/_og/ad99a553cb65d34ea849cafed5121a7e939228ad.png"><metadata-rh="true"name="docusaurus_version"content="current"><metadata-rh="true"name="docusaurus_tag"content="docs-root-pages-current"><metadata-rh="true"name="docsearch:version"content="current"><metadata-rh="true"name="docsearch:docusaurus_tag"content="docs-root-pages-current"><metadata-rh="true"property="og:title"content="Rules of Engagement | Waku"><metadata-rh="true"name="description"content="Waku is a nascent technology and the Waku community is still growing. Hence, the Waku team is keen to work closely with projects to help leverage Waku technology to drive the success of their own applications."><metadata-rh="true"property="og:description"content="Waku is a nascent technology and the Waku community is still growing. Hence, the Waku team is keen to work closely with projects to help leverage Waku technology to drive the success of their own applications."><linkdata-rh="true"rel="icon"href="/theme/image/favicon.ico"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="canonical"href="https://waku.org/rules-of-engagement"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="alternate"href="https://waku.org/rules-of-engagement"hreflang="en"><linkdata-rh="true"rel="alternate"href="https://waku.org/rules-of-engagement"hreflang="x-default"><linkrel="alternate icon"type="image/png"href="/theme/image/favicon.png">
It is the responsibility of the project team to understand the potential caveats and limitations that may incur with such a design.</p><p>The Waku team can provide options, but it is up to the project team to decide on the final solution.</p></span></div></div><h2class="anchor anchorWithHideOnScrollNavbar_WYt5"id="4-building">4. Building<ahref="#4-building"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to 4. Building"title="Direct link to 4. Building"></a></h2><p>The project then start building their MVP using Waku. The Waku team can provide support regarding API usage, bugs encountered, documentation gaps.</p><p>Waku team will use feedback raised by project to improve APIs, fix bugs and enhance documentation. Waku team continues R&D to deliver any committed technical gaps.</p><p>Project delivers their MVP.</p><divclass="theme-admonition theme-admonition-note alert--secondary admonition_ntHH"><spanclass="admonitionIcon_BGV6"><svgwidth="16"height="16"viewBox="0 0 16 16"xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><pathd="M8.00004 11.3333C8.18893 11.3333 8.34737 11.2693 8.47537 11.1413C8.60337 11.0133 8.66715 10.8551 8.66671 10.6667C8.66671 10.4778 8.60271 10.3193 8.47471 10.1913C8.34671 10.0633 8.18849 9.99957 8.00004 10C7.81115 10 7.65271 10.064 7.52471 10.192C7.39671 10.32 7.33293 10.4782 7.33337 10.6667C7.33337 10.8556 7.39737 11.014 7.52537 11.142C7.65337 11.27 7.8116 11.3338 8.00004 11.3333ZM7.33337 8.66668H8.66671V4.66668H7.33337V8.66668ZM8.00004 14.6667C7.07782 14.6667 6.21115 14.4916 5.40004 14.1413C4.58893 13.7911 3.88337 13.3162 3.28337 12.7167C2.68337 12.1167 2.20849 11.4111 1.85871 10.6C1.50893 9.7889 1.33382 8.92223 1.33337 8.00001C1.33337 7.07779 1.50849 6.21112 1.85871 5.40001C2.20893 4.5889 2.68382 3.88334 3.28337 3.28334C3.88337 2.68334 4.58893 2.20845 5.40004 1.85868C6.21115 1.5089 7.07782 1.33379 8.00004 1.33334C8.92226 1.33334 9.78893 1.50845 10.6 1.85868C11.4112 2.2089 12.1167 2.68379 12.7167 3.28334C13.3167 3.88334 13.7918 4.5889 14.142 5.40001C14.4923 6.21112 14.6672 7.07779 14.6667 8.00001C14.6667 8.92223 14.4916 9.7889 14.1414 10.6C13.7912 11.4111 13.3163 12.1167 12.7167 12.7167C12.1167 13.3167 11.4112 13.7918 10.6 14.142C9.78893 14.4922 8.92226 14.6671 8.00004 14.6667ZM8.00004 13.3333C9.48893 13.3333 10.75 12.8167 11.7834 11.7833C12.8167 10.75 13.3334 9.4889 13.3334 8.00001C13.3334 6.51112 12.8167 5.25001 11.7834 4.21668C10.75 3.18334 9.48893 2.66668 8.00004 2.66668C6.51115 2.66668 5.25004 3.18334 4.21671 4.21668C3.18337 5.25001 2.66671 6.51112 2.66671 8.00001C2.66671 9.4889 3.18337 10.75 4.21671 11.7833C5.25004 12.8167 6.51115 13.3333 8.00004 13.3333Z"fill="currentColor"></path></svg></span><div><spanclass="lsd-typography lsd-typography--body1 admonitionHeading_JPfy">note</span><spanclass="lsd-typography lsd-typography--body1 admonitionContent_iozl"><p>The Waku team is keen to help any usage of Waku library. Please note that code snippets are necessary for preliminary investigations of issues.</p><p>Sometimes, a code snippet is not enough; in this case, a <ahref="https://minimum-reproduction.wtf/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">minimal reproduction repo</a> is necessary to allow us to do further investigation.
If the project is open-source, then the Waku team might try to further investigate using it, as long as the reproduction steps are easy.</p><p>If no code is provided to help with the investigation, then there is nothing the Waku team can do.</p><p>For any unresolved issue, the project must open an issue on the related GitHub repository under the <ahref="https://github.com/waku-org"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">waku-org</a> organisation.</p></span></div></div><h2class="anchor anchorWithHideOnScrollNavbar_WYt5"id="5-ongoing-relation">5. Ongoing relation<ahref="#5-ongoing-relation"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to 5. Ongoing relation"title="Direct link to 5. Ongoing relation"></a></h2><p>Once the project application is live, the Waku team is keen to maintain regular contact. This can include discussion around performance, bugs found by users, etc.</p><p>The Waku team is keen to regularly present new and upcoming development to project team, highlight items that are particularly relevant.</p><p>If a project wishes to take onboard any new Waku protocol, or decide to extend their product with a new functionality using Waku, the circle can resume from <ahref="#1-initial-discussion">step 1</a>.</p></div></article><navclass="pagination-nav docusaurus-mt-lg"aria-label="Docs pages"></nav></div></div><divclass="gap1_XuuQ"></div><divclass="toc_pP_5"><divclass="tableOfContents_bqdL thin-scrollbar theme-doc-toc-desktop"><ulclass="table-of-contents table-of-contents__left-border"><li><ahref="#1-initial-discussion"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">1. Initial discussion</a></li><li><ahref="#2-solution-design"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">2. Solution design</a></li><li><ahref="#3-commitment"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">3. Commitment</a></li><li><ahref="#4-building"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">4. Building</a></li><li><ahref="#5-ongoing-relation"class="table-of-contents__link toc-highlight">5. Ongoing relation</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div></main></div></div><footerclass="footer"><divclass="container container-fluid firstRow_ar1q"><divclass="footer__bottom text--center"><divclass="margin-bottom--sm"><aclass="footerLogoLink_BH7S"href="/"><imgsrc="/theme/image/logo.svg"alt="Waku"class="themedImage_kfRS themedImage--light_BL8e footer__logo"width="22"><imgsrc="/theme/image/logo.svg"alt="Waku"class="themedImage_kfRS themedImage--dark_OvIx footer__logo"width="22"></a></div><divclass="footer__copyright">Waku</div></div><divclass="row footer__links"><divclass="col footer__col"><divclass="footer__title"></div><ulclass="footer__items clean-list"><liclass="footer__item"><ahref="https://twitter.com/waku_org"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer"class="footer__link-item">Twitter<svgwidth="13.5"height="13.5"aria-hidden="true"viewBox="0 0 24 24"class="iconExternalLink_nPIU"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M21 13v10h-21v-19h12v2h-10v15h17v-8h2zm3-12h-10.988l4.035 4-6.977 7.07 2.828 2.828 6.977-7.07 4.125 4.172v-11z"></path></svg></a></li><liclass="footer__item"><ahref="https://discord.waku.org/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer"class="footer__link-item">Discord<svgwidth="13.5"height="13.5"aria-hidden="true"viewBox="0 0 24 24"class="iconExternalLink_nPIU"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M21 13v10h-21v-19h12v2h-10v15h17v-8h2zm3-12h-10.988l4.035 4-6.977 7.07 2.828 2.828 6.977-7.07 4.125 4.172v-11z"></path></svg></a></li><liclass="footer__item"><ahref="https://www.youtube.com/@waku-org"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer"class="footer__link-item">YouTube<svgwidth="13.5"height="13.5"aria-hidden="true"viewBox="0 0 24 24"class="iconExternalLink_nPIU"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M21 13v10h-21v-19h12v2h-10v15h17v-8h2zm3-12h-10.988l4.035 4-6.977 7.07 2.828 2.828 6.977-7.07 4.125 4.172v-11z"></path></svg></a></li><liclass="footer__item"><ahref="https://www.linkedin.com/company/waku-org"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer"class="footer__link-item">LinkedIn<svgwidth="13.5"height="13.5"
