Glad to have you aboard Shruthi! On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 2:31 PM Courage Angeh <couragean...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome, Shruthi. > > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 6:34 PM Isaac Kamga <isaac.ka...@mifos.org> wrote: > > > Welcome aboard Shruthi. I look forward to working with you. > > > > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 2:47 PM Ed Cable <edca...@mifos.org> wrote: > > > > > Hello Mifos and Fineract communities, > > > > > > I wanted to formally introduce Shruthi Rajaram of Conflux Technologies > > who > > > is just starting out her role as Mifos Community Engineer as of > > yesterday. > > > You'll hopefully be seeing a lot of her on the lists as she's stepping > > into > > > the role that Nazeer once filled in presiding over the community. I'll > > let > > > her introduce herself and her background. > > > > > > The Mifos Initiative as fortunate enough to secure funding from DIAL > > > through one of their catalytic grants to get the Dirty Jobs work done. > > Her > > > role is made possible by this grant. > > > > > > As you've seen over the past several months, there have been delays in > > > shipping releases, merging pull requests, fixing bugs, building new > APIs. > > > Having a dedicate person in this role will certainly help with these > > delays > > > but I don't want it to reduce the pressure or remove the need for our > > > committers and community at large to be helping with these vital duties > > > because our aim is to help make the Fineract and Mifos communities > > > self-functioning without intervention of funded dedicated developers. > > > > > > For the near immediate future, she'll be working on the APIs that our > > GSOC > > > students need and getting the outstanding pull requests merged for > > Fineract > > > 1.2. > > > > > > Her scope of focus across Fineract and Mifos will include: > > > > > > > > > > > > * - Review and merge pull requests from interns, partners, and > volunteers > > > in our community to the Apache Fineract platform- Review and merge pull > > > requests from interns, partners, and volunteers in our community to the > > > Mifos X web and mobile apps- Guide the QA process and release > management > > > process as part of the Apache Way to publicly release Apache Fineract- > > > Prepare and package corresponding Mifos X web and mobile app releases > > that > > > consume the stable Apache Fineract platform. - Triage incoming bug > > reports > > > and feature requests. - Fix critical and show-stopping bugs and > security > > > vulnerabilities that arise and release them promptly as hot fixes. - > Fix > > > outstanding P1 bugs and feature requests from our backlog that requires > > > deep platform-level knowledge that volunteers can’t take on. - Develop > > new > > > APIs, integrations, and minor features which are dependencies for other > > > projects which will be developed upon by interns and volunteers.- > > > Architectural Design and Technical Onboarding - as new external > > > contributors come to the project, we need an expert on our platform to > > give > > > them an initial technical onboarding and help them properly design new > > > features they’d like to build - Dev Ops to maintain continuous > > integration > > > servers and build pipelines to push merged code to our staging server > and > > > push stable releases to our demo servers. *Join in welcoming Shruthi to > > > our communities! > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > *Ed Cable* > > > President/CEO, Mifos Initiative > > > edca...@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 > > > > > > *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org > > > <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos> > > > > > > > > >
