Title: Recap: Priorities Meeting 2022-10-05
Author: Zack Krida
Published: October 5, 2022

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zackkrida/) [Zack Krida](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zackkrida/)
10:31 pm _on_ October 5, 2022     
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# Recap: Priorities Meeting 2022-10-05

Members of the 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). community met over video 
and audio today to discuss Openverse priorities for the month of October. We discussed
three major things (you can read the [raw notes here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aUhpakIUy4we0BU0D3Pc7hqMJg_FpyxoB6eulBw6Z9c/edit#)):

 1. Status updates of current projects
 2. What we’ll be working on this month
 3. New projects we’re excited to start

## The need for better project documentation

One of the first things we mentioned was the need for deeper project documentation
in Make. There isn’t one easy place to view current projects at a glance. [@beccawidom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/beccawidom/)
mentioned how useful the [Dag Status](https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/handbook/openverse-catalog/dag-status-information/)
page is and how it could be a good model for a projects page.

## iFrameiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser. Removal

The project is ongoing and progressing quickly. Development is well underway and
can be viewed on the staging site with the `?ff_new_header=on` flag enabled. Here
is an [example link](https://search-staging.openverse.engineering/search/?q=capybara&ff_new_header=on).

[@olgabulat](https://profiles.wordpress.org/olgabulat/) completed the [mobile version](https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/pull/1882)
of the ‘recent searches’ feature today. There are a few open PRs in need of review:

 * [https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/pull/1880](https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/pull/1880)
 * [https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/pull/1875](https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/pull/1875)
 * [https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/pull/1846](https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/pull/1846)
 * [https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/pull/1867](https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/pull/1867)

 and more needing to be started:

 * [https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/issues/1826](https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/issues/1826)
 * [https://github.com/WordPress/openverse/issues/308](https://github.com/WordPress/openverse/issues/308)(
   this one is unassigned)

## Provider DAG Refactors

This project is also ongoing and advancing nicely. The [tracking milestone](https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-catalog/milestone/8)
has the latest updates and assignments. The project continues to reveal issues with
existing DAGs, from faulty logic, to unhandled errors, to data integrity concerns.

## Infrastructure Improvements

There’s ongoing work to switch to a single load balancer for all applications.

## Browse and Insert Openverse Media in WP CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

This project began serendipitously from a community PR to add Openverse browsing
to GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress.
The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing
rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes,
custom HTML etc. [https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/).
Since then there’s been more discussion and some [designs created](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/44496).

## Data normalization

We talked about this project a lot and decided we should devote time to planning
this month. [@krysal](https://profiles.wordpress.org/krysal/) plans to share a draft
of a plan to help clarify the scope and goals of the work.

## Upcoming projects

We discussed how the iFrame removal project won’t have much active development work
in the coming weeks, so it would be a good time to start planning for other projects.
We identified two:

 * The [session state cookie](https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/milestone/11)
   milestone would be great to prevent UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface -
   the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’
   and less about what they are doing. pop-in and for future storage of user state.
 * [@zackkrida](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zackkrida/) also wants to start Analytics
   and will kick off the project with an RFC for frontend event collection.

We also discussed the Content Safety project at length. It’s very important work
but we don’t have a clear **lead **for that project yet. As [@aetherunbound](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aetherunbound/)
mentioned, it would be worthwhile and possible this month to start scoping out this
project. Examples Madison gave are to gather and create issues, and write an RFC
for the project.

## Action Items

Finally, we decided on some next steps to keep work moving.

 * [@krysal](https://profiles.wordpress.org/krysal/): Share a draft of the Data 
   Normalization plan
 * [@aetherunbound](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aetherunbound/): Create a new
   DAG Stability and Bugfixes project and kickoff post
 * [@zackkrida](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zackkrida/): Create a new Analytics
   project 
 * [@zackkrida](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zackkrida/): Write a frontend event
   collection (analytics) RFC
 * [@zackkrida](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zackkrida/): Create and RFC request
   for handling removed images/dead links
 * All: Identify a lead for the Content Safety project

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