As one of the two primary architects of Fineract CN: It was not buzzword bingo, nor, as Saransh asserted in his ApacheCon 2020 talk, a "resume-driven" set of decisions. Those statements are insulting and do not promote collaboration nor goodwill. I would encourage community participants to always assume good-will, especially with respect to people doing coding work. We were doing the best work we knew how, and we ran out of funding for the open source work. I personally accepted a wage far under my market value for two years of work, because I sincerely believed in the work we were doing. It took me months to accept that it wasn't to be. I then attempted to drive the work forward for several months *unpaid*. In that context, I *really* *really* do not appreciate emails like this one.
IMO the idea of Fineract CN is still sound. But it is also *not* in conflict with Fineract. Claims that Fineract CN has driven the community apart are absurd: Fineract CN was never released; most of the community is focused on Fineract 1.x; And I'm here cheering y'all on from the sidelines. Nobody needs to spend time on Fineract CN who doesn't want to, and the people spending time on Fineract CN probably aren't interested in Fineract 1.x. Stop with the attacks already Saransh and Co; it's hurtful and unnecessary. Best Regards, Myrle Krantz On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 9:01 PM Giorgio Zoppi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > this is scary: > > Documentation is scattered and use cases other than micro-finance need to > be highlighted. There is hardly a senior functional fintech influencer > connected to the project at Product engineering level. > The CN vs 1.x question would be much better if it had an open answering > option, my opinion: CN has driven the community apart, abandoning an > existing product that has active users on it and businesses relying on it > like that was not a good decision of the project, and also not one made the > apache way, it was very much driven by the team at that time pushing people > onto a tech stack and buzzword bingo whereas the featureset was forgotten > about (in a similar way it happened between Mifos and MifosX). It > ultimately drove the efforts of collaboration apart and has resulted in > various larger implementers/developer teams forking away. > > > BR, > Giorgio. > > >
