>> What other ideas do you think will be good for Outreachy? A low complexity and high priority issue that we want to fix is at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-726 . Since this is a very small task, it could be added into one of the projects as a started task
Regards, Vishwas +1 (202) 716 6675 On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 8:50 PM Awasum Yannick <awa...@apache.org> 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? > > >
