By Weno Ndum Billy Hans on 2026-07-03 13:43 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

A sync meeting was held on June 29 (Dileep Adari, Tushar Malik). Priorities were set around failure notifications, filters/conditions, and a security review; article-level scheduling was kept as a stretch item.

What has been done throughout the week

• June 29: Sync meeting; started scaffolding the next issues.
• June 30 – July 01: Addressed review comments on PR #6 (added backend validation before saving automation values, per Dileep's feedback); created the GitHub issues discussed in the meeting.
• July 01 – 02: Implemented failure notifications — the task now returns a failure exit code so Joomla's built-in Task Notification plugin sends the email (no custom mail code). Adopted Tushar's suggestion of a requires_intervention flag so failed items are held from retrying without losing their schedule.
• July 02 – 03: Included a backend edit link to the affected item in the failure email; built the Automation Log admin view (read-only list with filters, item links, and a per-row Reset).
• July 03: Opened PR #14 (failure notifications + automation log) with a Loom demo. Per Benjamin's guidance, dropped the security-doc task since automation stays transition-level.

Planned for Next Week

• Design and implement filters and transition conditions (which transition fires when several apply; day-of-week / author-state requirements).