2022 april update

content/2022-april-update.md

+Title: 2022 April and May update
+Date: 2022-06-01
+Category: Announcement
+Slug: 2022-april-may-update
+Authors: Sporiff
+Donation: True
+Summary: The last couple of months have been big for Funkwhale development. Let's dig into it ⛏
+
+This has been a huge couple of months for the Funkwhale project. We made headway in some important projects and even released two bugfix versions! Let's take a look at some of what's been going on in more detail.
+
+## Development and funding updates
+
+A little while ago we mentioned that we had negotiated a change to our funding with NLNet. We decided that adding features before improving the infrastructure wasn't a good idea. With that in mind, we've allocated our funding to the following projects:
+
+- Create a design system
+- Create a repository of reusable Vue components
+- Migrate to Typescript
+- Refactor the embedded player
+- Migrate the Frontend to Vue 3
+- Create a Typescript client library
+- Update the outdated `requests-http-signature` library
+- Update the administrator documentation
+- Add multi-language support to the documentation
+- Create a Python client library
+- Rework the Docker deployment architecture
+
+The exciting news is that some of this work is already done and more is in progress! 
+
+- We've already made a lot of progress with the Vue 3 and Typescript migration thanks to [Kasper](https://dev.funkwhale.audio/wvffle).
+- [Sporiff](https://dev.funkwhale.audio/sporiff) is currently rewriting the documentation and the admin documentation is almost finished.
+- [Georg](https://dev.funkwhale.audio/georgkrause) has taken care of the outdated `requests-http-signature` library and brought it in-house.
+- [Georg](https://dev.funkwhale.audio/georgkrause)  has also started work on multi-language docs support.
+- [Mathieu](https://dev.funkwhale.audio/mjourdan) has been working hard on the new design system. We're aiming to bring more of it into our blog, website, and app as we go.
+
+Phew! There is a lot happening behind the scenes. We hope these changes improve everyone's experience and make the project easier to work on.
+
+We don't have a concrete timeline for 1.3 yet. The changes to the app are huge, so we'll need to do a lot of testing. We expect a lot of bugfix releases immediately following the release! 🐛
+
+## Funkwhale in the news
+
+[NKCproductions](https://twitter.com/NKCproductions) recently wrote [an interesting article about the Funkwhale project](https://ins-rt.net/text/sounds-from-the-fediverse-an-introduction-to-funkwhale-a-decentralised-community-audio-platform). The article goes into some details about the Funkwhale project, its history, its approach, and the challenges it faces. Check it out!
+
+## Change to our financial situation
+
+Following a [vote on our forum](https://forum.funkwhale.audio/d/161-financial-hosting-at-techcultivation), we are migrating our financial hosting to [Tech Cultivation](https://techcultivation.org/). This will hopefully make managing our finances easier long-term, and give us access to more resources. You can check out our [previous blog post]({filename}2022-association-update.md) for more information.
+
+## All other business
+
+We've had some amazing contributions by the community this month! We're really thankful that people continue to get involved with our project. Thank you for all your support and encouragement 🎉
+
+Take care everyone! 🐋