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