Development Weekly Chat Recap 2021-11-30 – Make Openverse

Welcome!

Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media.

The OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. team builds the Openverse Catalog, APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways., and front-end application, as well as integrations between Openverse and WordPress. Follow this site for updates and discussions on the project.

You can also come chat with us in #openverse on the Make WP Chat. We have a weekly developer chat at 15:00 UTC on Mondays.

If you’re a new contributor, welcome! Have a look at our good first issues or our guide for new contributors.

Takeaways

OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. contributors intend to speed up our code review time, as we identified a number of PRs that had been awaiting review for several weeks.

Our focus for this month is going to be continued focus on the new front-end components, and RTL support. Infra is focused on a new deployment strategy and staging previews for the frontend, while Catalog work is still on hold as we fix some production issues with the data refresh process.

We will manually generate new sample data for work on the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. to resume.

Contributors are excited to discuss some re-architecture of the data pipeline, where we can potentially eliminate the need for two near-identical databases.