Committers, The PMC received the below mail from Apache GSOC team today. Those interested in mentoring projects through the Apache software foundation are requested to follow the steps outlined in the trailing mail.
For GSOC, some of our immediate high priority needs include -> Fineract 1.x: Hardening of the application, improving code coverage, improving code quality, updating dependencies to their latest stable releases and cleaning up the API documentation. All of these tasks together will help us ship maintenance releases more frequently and easily going forward. I shall expand upon the same on Jira over the weekend. -> Fineract CN: The Community roadmap at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Apache+Fineract+CN+Community+Roadmap might be a bit out of date. Would anyone be interested in updating the same? We have started collecting starter issues and project idea on Jira with the label "gsoc2019", see https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-135?jql=project%20%3D%20FINERACT%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20gsoc2019 . Mail from Apache GSOC team follows -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear PMCs, I'm happy to announce that the ASF has made it onto the list of accepted organizations for Google Summer of Code 2019! [1,2] It is now time for mentors to sign up, so please pass this email on to your community and podlings. If you aren’t already subscribed to ment...@community.apache.org you should do so now else you might miss important information. Mentor signup requires two steps: mentor signup in Google's system [3] and PMC acknowledgement. If you want to mentor a project in this year's SoC you will have to 1. Be an Apache committer. 2. Request an acknowledgement from the PMC for which you want to mentor projects. Use the below template and *do not forget to copy ment...@community.apache.org*. We will use the email adress you indicate to send the invite to be a mentor for Apache. PMCs, read carefully please. We request that each mentor is acknowledged by a PMC member. This is to ensure the mentor is in good standing with the community. When you receive a request for acknowledgement, please ACK it and cc ment...@community.apache.org Lastly, it is not yet too late to record your ideas in Jira (see previous emails for details). Students will now begin to explore ideas so if you haven’t already done so, record your ideas immediately! Cheers, The Apache GSoC Team mentor request email template: ---- to: private@<project>.apache.org cc: ment...@community.apache.org subject: GSoC 2019 mentor request for <mentor name> <project> PMC, please acknowledge my request to become a mentor for Google Summer of Code 2018 projects for Apache <project>. I would like to receive the mentor invite to <email address> <custom content> ---- [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/ [2] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6614885824200704/ [3] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/