Community Meeting Recap (Feb 15th)

Welcome!

Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media. It is both a website where you can search, discover, and learn how to use and attribute media, as well as an openly accessible REST API.

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, API, and front-end application, as well as integrations between Openverse and WordPress. Follow this site for updates and discussions on the project.

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Meeting Start (in Slack)

Meeting End (in Slack)

This week we are approaching the end of a sprint focused on our Frontend Postlaunch cleanup.

Announcements

Next week’s meeting will be hosted by @aetherunbound, as we continue our hosting rotation amongst the sponsored OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. developers.

Takeaways

Done

Single audio result view cleanup, now it’s a more responsive page [ref]
New sponsored contributor, @stacimc, first PR 🎉 [ref]
Redesigned content reporting flow [ref]
Fixes to the global layout [ref]
The Openverse Catalog has milestones for future releases, so if anyone wants to contribute from that side, they can find the ongoing and required work there [ref]

In progress

Last item in the current frontend milestone: Update license explanation tooltip [ref]
The WordPress theme supporting locale based locale paths (critical for the next deployment) is blocked by WordPress/wordpress.org#60. Incoming changes already prepared [ref]
Changes to the way the catalog processes TSV files [ref]
New VLink component for external links [ref]
Refactoring of store modules [ref]

Upcoming changes

We agreed to dedicate next weeks to plan following milestones for the Frontend and 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. repositories while fixing most critical bugs [ref]. Pending points for planning that were mentioned:
- Vuex to Pinia migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies.
- Monitoring across the stack
- Further TypeScriptifying composables and other areas
- Adding more comprehensive e2e tests (especially ones that test keyboard navigation)
- Visual regression testing
Evaluate the guidelines for reviewing pull requests and complete them. Maintainers should remember to remove the awaiting triage label when creating or reviewing issues. [ref]

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