Members of the Openverse 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):
- Status updates of current projects
- What we’ll be working on this month
- 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 mentioned how useful the Dag Status page is and how it could be a good model for a projects page.
iFrame 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.
@olgabulat completed the mobile version 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/1875
- https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-frontend/pull/1846
- 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/issues/308 (this one is unassigned)
Provider DAG Refactors
This project is also ongoing and advancing nicely. The tracking milestone 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 Core
This project began serendipitously from a community PR to add Openverse browsing to Gutenberg. Since then there’s been more discussion and some designs created.
Data normalization
We talked about this project a lot and decided we should devote time to planning this month. @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 milestone would be great to prevent UI pop-in and for future storage of user state.
- @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 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: Share a draft of the Data Normalization plan
- @aetherunbound: Create a new DAG Stability and Bugfixes project and kickoff post
- @zackkrida: Create a new Analytics project
- @zackkrida: Write a frontend event collection (analytics) RFC
- @zackkrida: Create and RFC request for handling removed images/dead links
- All: Identify a lead for the Content Safety project