Title: Development Weekly Chat Recap 2021-11-30
Author: Zack Krida
Published: December 1, 2021

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zackkrida/) [Zack Krida](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zackkrida/)
6:51 pm _on_ December 1, 2021      

# Development Weekly Chat Recap 2021-11-30

[Meeting Start (in Slack) ](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1638284455122600)

[Meeting End (in Slack)](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1638287120155600)

## Takeaways

 * OpenverseOpenverse **Openverse **is a search engine for openly-licensed media,
   including images and audio. Find Openverse on [GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress?q=openverse)
   and at [https://openverse.org](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.

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