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GSoC'26 - Automated Workflow [Week Report #6] - Midterm

A sync meeting was held on July 06. The midterm evaluation was completed this week.

What has been done throughout the week

  • July 06: Worked out the design for the conditions/filters feature and the one-to-many rules model; sync meeting with mentors.
  • July 07: Shared the filters & transition-conditions design doc; completed the midterm evaluation; registered to present at JUG London. Incorporated review feedback (separating filters from conditions, moving to nested boolean expressions, trimming the evaluation section, adding a UI mockup).
  • July 08: Started implementation with the schema; multiple automation rules per transition (dropped the unique key), added the item_filter and fire_condition expression columns, and repurposed ordering as the resolution priority.
  • July 09: Built the
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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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