Community Meeting Recap (2023-07-11) – Make Openverse

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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📝 Agenda

Design-related issue prioritization

Some design-related issues stay in the backlog without being implemented. One such example is ticket #547, which proposes a significant improvement, but wasn’t implemented for a long time.

We agreed to review the design-related issues to add the design status (“design: needed”, “design: in discussion” and “design: ready”), set the appropriate priority label, and move the relevant issues to the “To Do” column. This can be done at every monthly prioritization meeting.

In general, we should introduce a better process for reassessing all old issue prioritization, maybe during a sync session a few times a year.

Frontend error pages discussion

The discussion needs some input before we start updating the error page designs: https://github.com/WordPress/openverse/discussions/2612

Catalog Performance Testing Results

@stacimc has published an excellent RFC on “Catalog Performance Testing Results”.

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