Title: Community Meeting Recap (April 26)
Author: stacimc
Published: April 28, 2022

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5:55 pm _on_ April 28, 2022     
Tags: [openverse-weekly-community-meeting ( 78 )](https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/tag/openverse-weekly-community-meeting/)

# Community Meeting Recap (April 26)

[Meeting Start (in Slack)](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650985270996359)

[Meeting End (in Slack)](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650987703384819)

Due to the cancellation of last week’s meeting, this meeting covers the last two
weeks.

## Takeaways

### Done

 * Exciting first contribution from a community member, improving Catalog connection
   configuration [[ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650985444756799)]
 * Many TypeScript PRs merged for the frontend [[ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650985499077199)]
 * Improvements to filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks [https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks).
   They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are 
   the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated
   manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables
   and output. fields in 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. [[ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1649775866858249)]
 * Cleanup of the Smithsonian provider DAG, eliminating unneeded DAG and DB table[
   [ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650985654247709)]
 * Interface bug fixes, including translation banner and audio layout updates [[ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650985665180559)]
 * The v1.2.1 milestone was completed for the Catalog [[ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650985719345779)]
 * Added Tailwind configuration viewer to improve lookups for tailwind values for
   styling the frontend [[ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650985755799889)]

### In progress

#### Needs review

 * Modal updates and TS utilities [[ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650986085084889)]
 * High priority frontend bug fixes requiring review [[ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650986093242909)]
 * Tabs component [[ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1649776241642619)]
 * Create VSources Table component, requirement for `Removing old styles` milestone[
   [ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650986346043489)]
 * Proof of concept for Feature Flag [[ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650986521741069)]

## Upcoming

Priorities of stalled tickets have been adjusted, then issues labeled with _[critical priority](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+archived%3Afalse+repo%3AWordPress%2Fopenverse+repo%3AWordPress%2Fopenverse-api+repo%3AWordPress%2Fopenverse-frontend+repo%3AWordPress%2Fopenverse-catalog+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3A%22%F0%9F%9F%A5+priority%3A+critical%22+)_
will be addressed first, and then those with open milestones.

A new milestone was created in the frontend repository for frontend bugs which must
be fixed before the next deployDeploy Launching code from a local development environment
to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. [[ref](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02012JB00N/p1650987096529939)].

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