Community Meeting Recap (14 March 2023)

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This post only summarizes the discussion of the agenda items. To keep up with the progress of OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org., you can check out the “Week in Openverse” posts.

📒 Agenda

This week’s main agenda item was a discussion of this PR proposal to automatically release to staging on version cuts in the monorepo. This prompted a larger discussion [ref] about whether manual releases are necessary moving forward, and raised questions about our versioning. We considered tagging published images with the version from package.json, in order to deployDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. without cutting a release [ref]. Additional thoughts are welcome in the thread.

We also discussed a few issues which need to be assigned. This Jamendo thumbnail issue has since been closed, but we are still looking to assign the following:

• ReadTimeout raised from general exception catching (high priority)
• Translation strings partials should be linked with the whole sentence (medium priority)

We posted a reminder about the following RFCs which are open for feedback:

• Project Proposal: Document all media properties (overdue by 10 March)
• Project Proposal: Detecting, filtering, and blurring results that include sensitive terms (by 24 March)
• Implementation plan: Managing a sensitive terms list (by 27 March 2023)
• Project Proposal: Core UI improvement (by 28 March)

Finally, we announced that PyCascades Sprint Support is on Monday, 20 March with virtual sprints from 9am PDT – 5pm PDT [ref].

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