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GSoC'26 – Multi-category Support for Joomla [Midterm Report]

Here's a summary of the work completed during the first half of the coding period:

 

  • Added support for assigning multiple categories to articles while keeping a single primary category.

  • Added the secondary categories field to the administrator article form.

  • Added the same functionality to frontend article editing.

  • Added support for creating secondary categories directly from the field.

  • Updated custom fields so fields assigned to secondary categories are available together with the primary category fields.

  • Extended article filtering to work with secondary categories.

  • Added support for secondary categories in search and Smart Search.

  • Updated featured articles and archived articles to include secondary categories.

  • Added secondary category support to batch

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CMS Release Team Meeting July 8, 2026

Participants: Jenn, Christiane, Martin, Sigrid, Heiko, Harald, Olivier, Benjamin, Martina, Stefan; We discussed the two releases, 5.4.7 and 6.1.2.


GSoC'26 - Translator Feedback Loop [Midterm Report]

For an overview of how things are going, see the Kanban board of the project


36 pull requests merged since coding began on May 25. Summary of what has been done:

- Set up the com_translations component for Joomla 6 (J5-compatible): installer, service providers, database tables for the translation queue, per-language queue states, feedback and rules.
- Built the translation queue as a grid view: source items as rows, installed target languages as columns, each cell showing that item's translation state.
- Made the source language configurable in the component options.
- Built the side-by-side translator feedback editor showing the machine draft next to the source, field by field.
- Added a "Save & Train" button to the editor: saves the correction into the draft article and stores one feedback row per changed
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Production Dept. Meeting June 23, 2026

Duration: 12mins

Attendees:

Sigrid Gramlinger, Benjamin Trenkle, David Jardin, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Richard Fath

Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger)

Budgets will be discussed in the board meeting.

Bug Squad  Team (Martin Kopp)

Having bi-weekly meetings now Mondays at 16:00 UTC

CMS Maintenance Team (Beniamin Trenkle)

Magazine article and report for sprint created, beside that, weekly PR decisions can be looked up on GitHub

 

CMS Release Team

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OSM Inc. Board Meeting June 26, 2026

Open Source Matters, Inc.
Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting

Date: 2026-06-25
Start Time: 17:00 UTC
End Time: 18:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour

Attendees:

  • President - Elisa Foltyn
  • Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor (late)
  • Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu
  • Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger
  • Outreach DC - Richard Gosler
  • Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger

Apologies:

  • Emmanuel Lemor
  • Carlos Cámara

Proxies:

  • Sigrid Gramlinger for Carlos Cámara (Operations DC)

Discussion Synopsis

Treasurer

  • We got the money from JaB for the Academy

Production Department

  • Joomla 6.2 Alpha2 was released - thanks to everybody involved and especially Martin as one of the Release
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