Fabulous Fineracters,
Below you'll find the January 2018 board report for Fineract. The
board meeting is on January 17th.
Changes can still be made. And comments are always welcome.
Best Regards,
Myrle Krantz
V.P., Apache Fineract
## Description
Apache Fineract (\’fīn-,ә-,rakt\) is an open source system for core banking as
a platform. Fineract provides a reliable, robust, and affordable solution for
entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and service providers to offer
financial services to the world’s 2 billion underbanked and unbanked.
## Issues
## Activity
We've added committers.
We've voted on and accepted Fineract CN (formerly mifos i/o) and imported the
code into gitbox repositories. We've made progress in deciding how to do
issue tracking, and release management on this code.
We announced the SQL-injection security vulnerability (CVE-2017-5663) which
was fixed in Apache Fineract 1.0.0.
The Mifos Initiative has involved us in Google Code In so we've had the
pleasure of making the acquaintance of many young, up-and-coming programmers
who are introducing themselves on our list. To date we've interacted with 245
students who are all working on a wide range of coding and non-coding
projects.
The Apache Fineract 1.1.0 release is soon to be ready for a vote. The
community has been doing extensive QA cycles. It will include a number of the
GSOC projects including the data import tool enhancements, two-factor
authentication, notifications framework, static analysis and more.
A vote to accept in a code donation from the Mifos Initiative of the Fineract
CN Mobile app developed by Apache Fineract 2017 GSOC intern, Rajan Maurya is
underway and should be complete before the January 17 board meeting.
Google Summer of Code 2018 applications are open now for mentoring
organizations. The Mifos Initiative plans to apply to mentor projects on both
Mifos X and Apache Fineract 1.0/CN which would be in addition to any
participation under Apache Software Foundation as an umbrella organization.
## Health report
We've made progress on our unmerged pull requests. Documenting the process
for merging and closing pull requests in the Fineract confluence seems to have
helped. At the time of our last board report, the oldest open pull request
was from March 2016. Currently, we've reduced the number of open pull requests
from 47 to 16. Unfortunately many had to be closed without merging. Those
that remain are still quite old.
We also were able to resolve several outstanding issues with respect to
committers for whom ICLAs or Apache ids were missing, so that there are no
longer any voted in committers who are not on the roster. Several of the
committers listed below in "committer base changes" were voted in and
announced significantly earlier.
## PMC changes
- Currently 13 PMC members.
- Avik Ganguly was added to the PMC on Sat Oct 14 2017
## Committer base changes
- Currently 22 committers.
- New commmitters:
- Avik Ganguly was added as a committer on Tue Oct 03 2017
- Awasum Yannick was added as a committer on Mon Nov 20 2017
- Ayuk Etta was added as a committer on Wed Nov 15 2017
- Mexina Daniel was added as a committer on Wed Nov 15 2017
- Nayan Ambali was added as a committer on Fri Nov 17 2017
- Nikhil Pawar was added as a committer on Wed Oct 04 2017
- Thynn Win was added as a committer on Tue Dec 12 2017
- Zayyad A. Said was added as a committer on Fri Nov 17 2017
## Releases
- Released version 1.0.0
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/fineract/1.0.0/ on June 1, 2017.
## Mailing list activity:
- Subscriber counts to dev and user have been slightly but steadily
increasing. The number of new subscribers who introduce themselves has seen
a significant uptick, but is mostly Google Code In students. Not all of
them will remain with the project.
- Email counts are not completely comparable with previous quarters because in
mid-September we rearranged what e-mails are sent to which lists. Those
changes may have also driven changes in subscriber count to the issues and
commits mailing lists. Hopefully, those changes will also make our dev list
more attractive for newcomers. This was also mentioned in our previous
report
- [email protected]:
- 199 subscribers (up 39 in the last 3 months):
- 659 emails sent to list (712 in previous quarter)
- [email protected]:
- 12 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 241 emails sent to list (204 in previous quarter)
- [email protected]:
- 160 subscribers (up 17 in the last 3 months):
- 143 emails sent to list (106 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- Jira activity has been up slightly.
- 55 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 28 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
