Hi Yannick, I want to suggest a few ideas for Fineract CN.
1. Upgrading Fineract CN from Spring Boot 1.4.1 to 2.1.+ 2. Upgrading Fineract CN from Spring Framework from 4.3.3 to 5.1.+ 3. Upgrading Gradle from 3.4.1 to 5.6 Warm Regards. On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 7:20 PM Awasum Yannick <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > The Apache Software Foundation is planning to participate in its first > Outreachy round beginning this September 2019. See here > <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/dbba6f4fd358737fddcb3da4b78df4f87fe384d59a35469a0d131545@%3Cdev.diversity.apache.org%3E> > for details. > > Outreachy is similar to GSoC but organized for people from > underrepresented communities. See more here > <https://www.outreachy.org/apply/eligibility/> about the rules. The goal > of Outreachy is to improve diversity and inclusion in the Software industry. > > Outreachy takes place twice a year: > > 1.) February to August, Coding from May to August. > 2.) September to March, coding from November to March > > I think this program which is new to Apache projects can help us improve > our diversity and also help us do some work on our software. The Apache > foundation is going in for the next Outreachy round which starts formally > in September 2019 for interns and ends in March 2020. > > I want to hear what you all think about Fineract participating in > Outreachy this year. > > For committers, will you be able to mentor an Intern? > > If the community likes to go in for this then I am calling on committers > who will be interested to mentor interns this upcoming round for Apache > Fineract to start putting down their project ideas on wiki. > > From the top of my head, Fineract 1.x has some key issues which could be > fixed. This include: > > 1.) Upgrading Fineract 1.x to Spring Boot 2 and updating other > dependencies. > 2.) Code Quality and Static Code Analysis for Fineract 1.x > 3.) Enhancing Unit and Integration tests for Fineract 1.x > > What other ideas do you think will be good for Outreachy? > > > -- *Best Regards,* *Ebenezer Graham* *BSc (Hons) Computing* [image: EmailSignature.png] <http://www.pactmart.com/> GitHub <https://ebenezergraham.me> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebenezer-graham/> | Personal Website <https://ebenezergraham.me> skype: ebenezer.graham | Phone: +230 5840 9206 <+230%205840%209206> *“Talk is cheap, show me the Code” *- *Linus Torvalds*
