I agree Saransh that the purely back-end projects have been less appealing but do think they're extremely valuable to the community and if we can find the right fit from a student it works out great so would definitely emphasize we try to attract some students for the types of projects Awasum has described.
Ed On Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 11:27 Saransh Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not sure, we should really focus on getting small piece of > development done from them, in past they have demonstrated skills for > Mobile app and web-app. > > I think it will be too boring for them, unless they want to work in the > future. This requires some level of understanding of the project Fineract > also. > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:23 PM Awasum Yannick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Now that the ASF as well as the Mifos Initiative are going in for GSoC >> 2020, do we have project ideas for both GSoC and Outreachy 2020? This is a >> great way to have some features added and also add new members to our >> community. >> >> I am currently exploring the idea of having one intern work on upgrading >> Fineract 1.x to Java 11 (latest LTS version of Java). I have created an >> issue here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-846 >> >> Is anyone interested to mentor that project? Michael already started >> doing some work wrt to Java 11 upgrade here: >> https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/609 >> >> Still to decide if upgrading to Java 11 is a project worth an interns >> time over 3 months or its just too small for 3 months. What do you think? >> What other major features do you think we could implement over GSoC and >> Outreachy 2020? >> >> Thanks. >> Awasum >> >> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 11:20 AM Awasum Yannick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Do you have features or project ideas you will like to mentor for the >>> upcoming Outreachy and GSoC 2020 sessions? >>> >>> We could use this thread to discuss them and create issues on Jira and >>> Specifications on Confluence. >>> >>> We have until Feb 25th 2020 to get these project ideas up and running. >>> >>> This a great opportunity for us to use the resources provided by these >>> programs to push the projects forward. >>> >>> I immediately see the need to fix some of the bugs in the backlog >>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/FINERACT/issues/FINERACT-827?filter=allopenissues>. >>> There are over 390 open issues which we could select a subset of these and >>> share among interns. First we need to triage them and make sure they are >>> clear and feasible. Anyone willing to do this? >>> >>> If we can identify some issues which can be solved over 3 months, then >>> that would be great. Issues which really blocks the community are highly >>> welcomed. >>> >>> What do you think? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Awasum >>> >> > > -- > > Saransh Sharma > *Research Partner* > *Muellner Internet Pvt Ltd * > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The idea of separation of me and you is amazing. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *Company Website <https://www.muellners.com/> **Company Linkedin > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/muellners> *Company Facebook > <https://www.facebook.com/muellners> > > This mail is governed by Muellner® Internet Private Limited's IT policy. > The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents > may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from > disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if > this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert > the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any > attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents > of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly > prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be > monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure > compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails > are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be > intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed > to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail. >
