Community meeting recap (30 August 2022) – 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.

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Meeting start

🎉 Done!

Fixed the front end memory leak[ref]
Improved the Catalog quality-of-life when running tests by @ramadanomar [https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-catalog/pull/705]
Added a new issue template for design-related issues [#1733]
Improved the output of the Bundle size analyzer for frontend PRs [#1720]
Refactored the Metropolitan museum script in the catalog [#674]
Added email notifications to Airflow[ref]

👀 Needs review

PR that will improve our Front end Sentry errors[PR link]
PR that simplifies Modals and provides a good start for finishing the typescriptification effort [PR link]
PR that converts the MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. search form at the bottom of the search form into a select to match the new design mockups [PR link]
PR that makes sure that Audio albums are always displayed on the detail page, if they are available [PR link]
PR that makes sure that Audio albums are always displayed on the detail page, if they are available [PR link]
Playwright update, should be quick to review [PR link]
A small fix for Airflow that will help with alert callbacks[GitHub link]
New audio component needs cross-platform accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) testing[GitHub link]
A fix for global audio player not stopping on page change[GitHub link]
Brooklyn museum script refactor[GitHub link]
Update to “How to use” section wording [GitHub link]

Active discussions

Discussion on the “effort” label [GitHub link]
Discussion on grouping text styles into utility classes [GitHub link]

💬 Agenda discussion

There were no open tickets with critical priority. We assigned some issues with high priority, and adjusted the priority levels on others.

Lastly, there is a brainstorming post on Openverse priorities that needs comments! It will be open for comments for one more week.

…Meeting end

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