Cortex Braindump (Sprint 25)

[gabrielle-ong]

What has been done (Sprint 25)

1.0.3 Release (end of week 1)

• https://github.com/janhq/cortex.cpp/milestone/24?closed=1
• Key Cortex features: Engines management, Hardware detection and activation, Docker images, Linux installation (script, binaries), Function Calling, UX improvements
• Cortex.llamacpp features: parameters for /models/start, /chat/completions
• Bug fixes for Jan 0.5.9: CORS, HTTPS

What is ongoing (Sprint 25)

Cortex Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/janhq/projects/5/views/38

1.0.4 scope (Target: 2 Dec Mon)

• Bug fixes for Jan 0.5.10:
  • bug: could not start any model when change system locale to German #1722
  • bug: could not open cortex binary if username contains a special character #1724
  • feat: Engines API endpoints should be consistent #1684
  • epic: Cortex track delete models on file system #1683
• New features: Remote Engines, /messages, Cortex Updater migrations
• Probably moving to Sprint 26: Vision models, k8 deployment, model/sources, align cortex.llamacpp with llamacpp version
• Qn: inactive user bugs "investigating status" - close after 1 month?

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Mental Model

1. Product

PM

• Daily: Review Eng tickets / PRs code and progress
• Feature level: Write specs / acceptance criteria
  • currently speced during QA => to move to before implementation with engineers
• Roadmap: Curate New features
  • currently created tickets, unprioritised / untracked

QA

• Daily: QA by Feature level (tickets in QA)
• QA nightly cortex for regression

Docs, Tutorials, blogs

• Help with docs for new features
• [NEED DIRECTION] how to rewrite delightful docs
• Blog idea: Cortex with Open Web UI (people want web? common qn)
• Blog idea: Build something with Cortex (copy a open AI tutorial)
• Tutorial idea: Build with Cortex and agents framework (eg SwarmZero) to capture mindshare while Agents is the rage https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/build-a-multi-agent-research-assistant
• Idea: Work with Abid KDnuggets author who wrote a post on Cortex and many posts on Jan

2. People

Users

• Daily: Triage user questions in Discord, Github, Reddit, socials
• Feature updates: when fixes/features are out
• User interviews (discord, comments)

Strategic Partnerships

• [ASK FOR HELP] Strategic partnership with Intel, Qualcomm, AMD

3. Process - Need to think / automate

Roadmap / Sprint Planning
=> Current view by Kanban, by sprint: https://github.com/orgs/janhq/projects/5/views/38

QA, Release Management

• https://github.com/orgs/janhq/projects/5/views/25?filterQuery=Release&pane=issue&itemId=88461134&issue=janhq%7Cqa%7C3
• Write acceptance criteria during planning/implementation
• Deprecate nightly, to QA on feature build
• QN: @dan-homebrew can we Add Tin to Github org, else he cannot be tagged as assignee (though can be commented)
• Automate QA

[gabrielle-ong]

Closing together with #1735