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1. GSoC'26 - Automated Workflow [Week Report #16]

   PRs #42 through #45 merged, and the pull request to Joomla itself is open as joomla/joomla-cms#48480.

   #44 was the largest, and it came out of deliberately testing the paths I was most confident about. Three things were wrong and none of them produced an error. Transitions stored as "from any stage" never matched an item, so they never fired and never appeared as upcoming, which is every transition in the default Basic Workflow. A filter containing one unfinished check was saved as no filter at all, so the rule applied to every item in the stage. And items created while workflows were switched off, or moved by a batch stage change, had no state row, so automation could not see them at all. Each scheduler run now reconciles

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2. OSM Inc. Board Meeting September 3, 2026

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

   Date: 2026-09-03
   Start Time: 17:00 UTC
   End Time: 19:10 UTC
   Total time of meeting: 2 hours 10 minutes

   Attendees:

   • President - Elisa Foltyn
   • Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor
   • Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger
   • Outreach DC - Richard Gosler
   • Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger

   Apologies:

   • Operations DC - Carlos Cámara
   • Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu

   Proxies

   • Production DC is proxy for Operations DC
   • President is proxy for Treasurer

   Discussion Synopsis:

   General

   • The Board members present went through their ‘ToDo Tracker’ to dispose of/update actions assigned to each of them. This list is updated after every Full Board

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3. JCM Submit-Your-Stuff meeting for the September issue

   Attendees: Anja de Crom, Herman Peeren, Viviana Menzel, Louise Hawkins, Claudia Weber-Lenck, Emmanuel Lemor

   What did we talk about

   This was a chat meeting meant to go over the list of articles in the making. We might have 16-18 articles for September, which is awesome!

   The meeting lasted around 30 minutes.

   Want to join a JCM meeting?

   You are more than welcome! Our meetings take place in the dedicated JCM channel on Mattermost. They're chat meetings, so if people can't join us during the meeting, they can always read back. Are you curious about the JCM or what's happening there? Join us, our channel is called OR Community Magazine.

   You don't have to be a team member to join the channel. But we might ask you one fine day if you'd like to contribute to the JCM. So be prepared :)

   This article tells you where to find Joomla's Mattermost: a

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4. Production Dept. Meeting September 1st, 2026

   Duration: 18mins

   Attendees:

   Sigrid Gramliner, Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Harald Leithner, Herman Peeren, Olivier Buisard, Richar Fath

    

   Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger)

   STF Project runs smooth

   CMS Maintenance Team (Beniamin Trenkle)

   1. Deprecation Sprint at the 5th of September
   2. Otherwise still working on PRs and Feature-Decisions every Wednesday

   CMS Release Team (Stefan Wendhausen)

   Release managers (names in alphabetical order)

   Release 6.2 (Martin Kopp, Viviana Menzel):

   Release 6.2.0 Beta2 

    

   Enhancement Development Team (Olivier

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5. GSoC'26 - Automated Workflow [Week Report #15]

   Five PRs merged, #37, #38, #39 and #40 together, then #41 at the end of the week. Issues #2, #11, #20 and #24 closed.

   #39 settled the run-as user question, open since issue #2 in the first week. A rule executes its transition as a chosen user, so who that user is decides what the automation is allowed to do. My first approach

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