Devs - I noticed in our recently completed survey ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Survey+Results+2022+November), that a number of people are new to the project and may not be familiar with long standing norms. We also got a comment about explaining how it works and being more transparent.
Fineract is one of about ~180 Top Level Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects. We have hundreds of subscribers to this list, 50 committers, and 20 members of the Project Management Committee (PMC). You can find this information, which is updated regularly on https://projects.apache.org/committee.html?fineract This email list is public. It is our public record of discussion, debate, and things relevant to the project. ( archive here==> https://lists.apache.org/[email protected] ) The mantra is "if it didn't happen on the listserv, then it didn't happen". You can have an outside conversation on zoom, slack, whatever but a summary and insights need to show up here on the listserv in some way for it to be "part of our community effort". We try to keep our documentation up to date via the wiki and website. We submit our quarterly project update to the Board of ASF, and we work on a draft via a wiki page, which we start to edit a week to 10 days before it is due in: January, April, July, and October. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Fineract+PMC+Reports+to+Apache+Board <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Fineract+PMC+Reports+to+Apache+Board> Our dev process follows a Review then Commit (RTC) pattern and we expect all Pull Requests to be associated with a JIRA Ticket ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/FINERACT/ ) and all of the check boxes in the Commit being accomplished in full. We allow for a "lazy consensus" on more trivial matters. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Committer%27s+Zone <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Committer%27s+Zone> Unlike other open source projects that enforce copyleft contributions or limits commercialization, the Apache license allows for commercial use. We maintain a FAQ. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=91554327 <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=91554327> Security issues that are discovered should be sent to security AT fineract.apache.org We have a process of Creating a New Release that is managed according to norms at ASF. We also deprecate releases. We now have a way of doing a "patch release" to allow for bug fixes and important patches to be released. Our current release is 1.8.x and 1.7.x. I hope this is helpful.
