Source: Make WordPress: Openverse

  • Mitigating out of terms API usage

    Yesterday at 20:20 UTC, we released version 2.5.5 of our API! Along with a few dependency upgrades and DevEx improvements/fixes, this release also brings an important change regarding anonymous API requests. After v2.5.5, any media searches that are made without an APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs…

  • Community Meeting Recap (14 June 2022)

    Takeaways Done Audio page padding was fixed The progress bar in audio track was fixed DAG infrastructure improvements In progress Needs review Null thumbnail link in audio tracks without artwork Redirect search pages to home when no search query is present Add Elasticsearch metrics to CloudWatch dashboard Add documentation & recipes for jumphost connecting Make…

  • Community Meeting Recap (7 June 2022)

    Takeaways Done 71 PRs merged over the two-week period We continue to receive and merge contributions from people new to OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. In progress Needs review The iNaturalist draft PR introduces a whole host of new patterns for providers…

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  • Community Meeting Recap (May 17)

    Takeaways Done Deployment of the API v2.5.0 and frontend v.3.3.0 [ref] Catalog: Data refresh process in the catalog made clearer [ref] Frontend: Saving network requests by not fetching the data twice on the search page [ref] Frontend: layout PR fixed a lot of issues with scrolling and the headerHeader The header of your site is…

  • Openverse maintainers welcome Rebecca Widom as a new committer

    It gives us great pleasure to announce that Rebecca Widom has been added as a committer to the OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. project! Her code contributions to the catalog and planning work on the addition of 3D models as a new…

  • Community Meeting Recap (May 10)

    Community notices We’re refining our process for incorporating community contributions from frequent committers! We want to make this process easy for folks so they can continue to make excellent contributions with ease. Look out for some more information in the coming days about what being a “committer” to OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed…

  • Community Meeting Recap (April 26)

    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] Many TypeScript PRs merged for the frontend [ref] Improvements to filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for…

  • Community Meeting Recap (April 12th)

    Announcements Next week’s meeting is canceled; the next OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. Weekly Development chat will be at 1500 UTC on April 26th. Takeaways Done New version of the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that…

  • Community Meeting Recap (April 5th)

    Takeaways We continue focusing the work on 3D model based on the 3D Model RFC. Done New OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. bot [ref] Goodbye to the analytics service [ref] Improvements in repo to be more friendly [ref] TS improvements [ref] Improvements…