Week July 2025
Updates on what the past couple of weeks of discussions and refocusing have brought so far. Directions Codex is taking + still ongoing conversations.
Documents and Knowledge
Codex has had a long-standing problem of documents and knowledge being locked into ad hoc places and contributor’s personal accounts and getting lost. This week, we finally made a step towards addressing that. TL;DR, we’ll have:
- a team HackMD (as opposed to personal accounts) for quick collaboration and ephemeral documents;
- git(hub) as the eventual place where everything “important” should be.
This is good because:
- team HackMD means we don’t lose sight of documents anymore: it’s full-text-searchable, it’s markdown, supports github sync, and is very low friction for collaboration and quick-and-dirty docs;
- people who prefer Obsidian can use it, as the github repo is a just an Obsidian vault;
- github flows (PRs and comments on PRs) are still possible;
- the vault builds to a quartz website so it’s also conveniently publicly visible/searchable;
- last, but not least, it sits well with the team’s preferences.
Short-term Roadmap
As part of the effort in re-steering the project towards Logos and faster releases, we have been intensely dicussing internal use cases to get our short-term roadmap going:
- Discussion on Waku’s requirements: https://github.com/waku-org/pm/pull/328
- Thoughts on assumptions for quick wins: https://hackmd.io/OQaVT3wVScyNAyEO3UJQbQ
Shout out to Václav, Franck, and the Waku team for being so welcoming and supporting to our efforts. We have also been talking to the Status team and should have more on that shortly.
Altruistic Mode
Can we build a meaningful Codex without Marketplace? There is a hypothesis that thinking of Codex without a marketplace could make things simpler, maybe even revealing a path towards faster, incremental releases. But will it really? We are trying to find out. So far we don’t a lot to share, but here goes some unfiltered brain dumps for you:
- Balazs’ brain dump: https://hackmd.io/qgsdVzJ6SFC7ZVpDfWTmKQ
- Giuliano’s brain dump: https://hackmd.io/vuWTutZiSUalVZp5YRcImQ
- Eric’s brain dump: https://hackmd.io/ytUZ7Ik6QwuWbXmfcBe0Qg
Eco Dev/comms
- Update the Codex community regarding upcoming changes
- Workshop in Zanzalu where we are gonna use:
- Testnet for the work shop and get users in. We use it for feedback. And any changed roadmap will basically motivated by “after collecting feedback from users, we’ve decided to adjust the roadmap priorities”
Focus for next week
- Energy will continue in building an aligned/meaningful short-term roadmap, and figuring out the ins and outs of an altruistic mode.