Allow filtering separation of Adoptium articles and other news

[sxa]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. At the moment the blog (https://adoptium.net/blog which redirects to https://adoptium.net/en-GB/news) is a mix of articles specifically relating to Adoptium by the team working on it and other articles about wider Eclipse Foundation items. We used to have more obviously visible tags to select things and while we're still adding such tags they are not visible to find linked ones. It would be useful if we could filter out certain content. I recently tried to find a particular blog post and it took longer than it should page through to find it in the absence of any other option, and many of those articles I paged past were not longer relevant.

Describe the solution you'd like Ideally "news" and "blog" separate, but as a minimum a way to filter by tag or other mechanism to exclude marketing articles

Describe alternatives you've considered None other than what I've said above about separating news and real adoptium blogs.

Additional context n/a

[SehrishHussain]

@sxa I would like to work on this enhancement.

[CarmenDelgadoEclipse]

We need to find a consistent way to create that filtering option, it could be based on post tags, and a 3rd option when it comes from Newsroom or third parties like Javapro magazine.

• when the blog psot is created either under Adoptium.net or EF page it does include tags:

or

The problem will be went we are linking to 3rd-parties pages like these 2 articles: https://javapro.io/2025/09/03/java-at-eclipse-honoring-the-legacy-securing-the-future-of-open-source-innovation/ or https://newsroom.eclipse.org/eclipse-newsletter/2025/july/evolving-emt4j-rule-based-automation-ai-agent

[sxa]

when the blog post is created either under Adoptium.net or EF page it does include tags

Yeah the issue is that it's not possible to see them on the main feed so you can't filter on them from the UI until you go into such an article. Perhaps if we had links similar to your screenshot on the main feed that would make it better. There would be two options here.

1. Show all potential tags
2. Show a subset of tags that would be useful to filter by (e.g. release-notes, adoptium-tech (yes I just made that up but we could retrospectively tag things to make this work effectively, other) or similar. I sort of feel that the release notes possibly shouldn't have "temurin" for this to work nicely though (if I view the temurin tags the six that are shown are release announcements with only one other article about JEP493) ... In an ideal world having those three has checkboxes that can be switched on/off would be nice but that might be harder to implement as it would be a large refresh on the page to implement it.

EDIT: Also there are links such as https://adoptium.net/news/author/sxa that can be used to show all articles from a specific author, which will certainly help me find my own posts in the future in amongst all of the others. Similarly https://adoptium.net/news/author/pmc will show the ones signed off by the PMC

[SehrishHussain]

Thank you @sxa and @CarmenDelgadoEclipse for the detailed discussion I’d like to clarify the direction before exploring an implementation.

Based on the points raised so far, it seems we have a few possible paths:

1. Expose tags on the main feed and enable basic tag filtering

• Lightest change, uses the tagging already in place
• Would help users quickly narrow down Adoptium posts vs. wider Eclipse content

2. Introduce a small set of curated categories (e.g., Release Notes / Adoptium Technical / Eclipse News / External)

• More user friendly than showing all raw tags
• We could retroactively map existing content into these categories

3. Fallback tagging for third-party/newsroom links

• Ensures external items remain filterable
• Simple domain: tag mapping during content generation

(Optional longer term) Split the feed into “Blog” and “News” tabs once tagging is consistent.

Before proceeding, could we align on which direction you’d like to prioritize? Personally, I’d propose starting with Phase 1 (show tags + enable tag based filtering + fallback tags). It’s a small change with immediate benefits and sets the foundation for cleaner separation or category based filtering later.

Happy to help draft an implementation once we pick the approach.

[sxa]

For option 1 is there a way of filtering currently by "Wider eclipse content"? I'm not sure the can be made to show up in any tag filter. Maybe it doesn't matter though as long as we can filter the other stuff :-)

I do wonder if the release-notes articles should only be tagged as release-notes and not temurin so that temurin can be exclusively used for the more technical things, but that's potentially a separate discussion.

[CarmenDelgadoEclipse]

The Eclipse news, which also includes some community blog posts, is connected to Adoptium.net through API. Could we retrieve the tags from the API? Is there any that can be classified as generic?

And having the filter by author is a good option as well.