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GSoC'26 – Multi-category Support for Joomla [Week Report #11]

What I have done

  • Renamed the term "secondary categories" to "additional categories" everywhere in the code.

  • Updated the frontend UI. Now, all categories are shown together under one simple label: "Categories:...".

  • Changed settings so "additional categories" options now depend on the "main category" settings to avoid conflicts.

  • Updated the Articles module to show both the main category and additional categories, but only if the user has permission to see them. It also respects the "Category Link" option.

  • Updated Cypress tests to use the new names and check the menu item settings.

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GSoC'26 - Translator Feedback Loop [Week Report #11]

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

Done this week:
 
- Raised a pull request on the Joomla core repository, (the first to core of this project): editing a category quietly dropped any unpublished translation from its association group, and republishing did not bring it back. It was found while extending re-translation to categories, traced to a 2018 change meant for the frontend language switcher, verified against `5.4-dev`, and fixed without changing what the switcher displays (joomla-cms#48208). 
- Made the translator views work in the frontend, so a translator account with no access to the administrator at all can do the full job (a
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OSM Inc. Board Meeting July 23, 2026

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

Date: 2026-07-23
Start Time: 17:10 UTC
End Time: 20:20 UTC
Total time of meeting: 2 hours 20 minutes

Attendees:

  • President - Elisa Foltyn
  • Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor
  • Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu
  • Operations DC - Carlos Cámara
  • Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger
  • Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger

Apologies:

  • Outreach DC - Richard Gosler

Proxies:

  • None

Discussion Synopsis

Treasurer

  • FY 2025/26 financial reports:
    • Preliminary reports for Board review are in the Full Board Channel. Please review them.
    • After the Board review, the reports will be sent to our accountant
    • After the Board review, the reports will be published on
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GSoC'26 - Translator Feedback Loop [Week Report #10]

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

Done this week:
 
- Ran the whole feedback loop end to end for the first time: an article was translated, corrected by hand, approved, and distilled into three rules, and re-translating the same source then produced the translation with all three corrections on its own, covering terminology, tone and a term kept untranslated.
- Split saving from approving in the editor: Save now only saves, Approve records the corrections against the machine draft, and Approve and Publish also makes the translation live (#109).
- Fixed saving a translation rule, which had stopped working for every rule type after the previous form change (a
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GSoC'26 – Multi-category Support for Joomla [Week Report #10]

What I have done

  • Added secondary category support to the com_banners and com_newsfeeds APIs.

  • Updated the API to return secondary_categories in both single item and list responses.

  • Improved API PATCH requests to be safer. If you do not send secondary_categories or tags, the old ones are kept. If you send an empty array [], they are removed.

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