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## Description:
Apache Fineract (\’fīn-,ә-,rakt\) is an open source system for core banking as a
platform. Fineract provides a reliable, robust, and affordable
solution for entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and service
providers to offer financial services to the world’s 2 billion
underbanked and unbanked.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Apache Fineract graduated on April 19, 2017 and has been engaged in press work
to announce the graduation, content work to remove incubation disclaimers, and
coordination with Infra for the necessary adjustments there.
Apache Fineract will be mentoring three students for the 2017 Google Summer of
Code. Rajan Maurya from India will be working on a new Android field officer app
based on use cases in Latin America. Sanyam Goel from India will be working on
live REST API documentation using Swagger. Nikhil Pawar from the USA will be
working on extended and enhancing the credit bureau integration module.
## Health report:
The project remains healthy. Activity levels on mailing lists, git and
JIRA remain constant.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months.
- Last PMC addition was Jim Jagielski on November 3rd, 2016.
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 14 committers.
- 2 new committers added in the last 3 months.
- Last committer additions were Zayyad Said and Robert Ippez on March 13th, 2017.
## Releases:
The last release was announced on January 17th, 2017,
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/fineract/0.6.0-incubating/
We have started the process of next release.
## Mailing list activity:
- dev@fineract.apache.org:
- 141 subscribers (up 27 in the last 3 months):
- 860 emails sent to list (864 in previous quarter)
- user@fineract.apache.org:
- 113 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months):
- 65 emails sent to list (71 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 73 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 69 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to a core banking platform that provides a reliable, robust, and affordable solution for entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and service providers to offer financial services to the world's underbanked and unbanked. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Fineract Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Fineract Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to a core banking platform that provides a reliable, robust, and affordable solution for entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and service providers to offer financial services to the world's underbanked and unbanked; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Fineract" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Fineract Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Fineract Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Fineract Project: * Vishwas Babu AJ <vishwasbabu@apache.org> * Edward Cable <edcable@apache.org> * Markus Geiss <mage@apache.org> * Sander van der Heyden <sheyden@apache.org> * Ishan Khanna <ishan1604@apache.org> * Myrle Krantz <myrle@apache.org> * Terence Monteiro <terencemo@apache.org> * Adi Nayaran Raju <rajuan@apache.org> * Gaurav Saini <gsaini@apache.org> * Nazeer Hussain Shaik <nazeer1100126@apache.org> * Jim Jagielski <jim@apache.org> * Michael Vorburger <vorburger@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Myrle Krantz be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Fineract, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Fineract PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Fineract Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Fineract Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Fineract podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Fineract podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator Project are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7D, Establish the Apache Fineract Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Addressing areas of concern raised by community based on our Maturity
Evaluation including:
* Full documentation of our release management process
* Implementation of Findbugs to show commitment to quality of code
* Preparation of our community to respond any security threats or
vulnerabilities that are reported.
* Improvement of backwards compatibility of APIs and communication of
breaking changes with each release.
* Updating Apache Fineract webpage with latest releases.
2. Adding new committers and contributors to the project.
3. Continuing to move over additional documentation and providing full
clarity to our community on how and where to report issues via the
issue tracker.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
* Community continues to stay strongly engaged on the mailing lists with
active reporting of issues via the mailing list and issue tracker.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The community has made 2 additional releases since the last report.
* Our second release was made on December 21, 2016 with three binding
votes from the community.
* Our third release was made on January 17, 2017 with three binding
votes from the community.
Date of last release:
2017-01-17
When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2016-05-16
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. With the first official incubation release out, we want to work on
getting frequent successful incubation releases shipped to the community
on a monthly basis.
2. Adding new committers and contributors to the project along with
empowering volunteers and support partner organizations in the community
to contribute to the codebase while using the project infrastructure.
3. Resolving the questions around introduction of a rework of the original
code – in particular repository/infrastructure/release questions which
result from the microservice architecture
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
* With the first official incubation release out, we look add several new
committers who have worked on modules and features that will soon be
merged into the release.
* The community is more involved and engaged in asking questions on the
developer and user mailing lists. We are working to ensure that all
inquiries are actively addressed and more discussions regarding
functionality and design occur on the mailing lists.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Our first release was made on October 25, 2016. We received 4 binding
votes from the community.
* Significant work was led by the Mifos core development team to address the
licensing issues with a dependency on Hibernate and replacing it with
OpenJPA - details on the code changes made and the challenges overcome can
be found at https://youtu.be/C4lXtXY-MY4
Date of last release:
2016-10-25
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2016-05-05
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[X](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Roman Shaposhnik:
Next item on the immediate TODO list for the community is to master
releases of binary convenience artifacts.
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Getting a first release out – we are still inhibited by Hibernate issues
which are more deeply rooted than we realized.
2. Moving the community from the Mifos infrastructure to the Apache
infrastructure – most discussions are taking place out of public view.
3. Resolving the questions around introduction of a rework of the original
code – in particular repository/infrastructure/release questions which
result from the microservice architecture.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The person who creates and submits the board reports will cease to perform
this task until the code rework is ready to be introduced to the community.
It is possible that this will endanger the board reports.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several prospective new committers have recently joined the Mifos community
through Google Summer of Code and as new partners that we are working to
add as committers to the Apache Fineract.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have tried and failed to produce an apache release again. A release was
produced by the mifos community outside of apache and announced on the
apache fineract user list.
The release included work intended to move us closer to apache policies.
In particular, the removal of Hibernate annotations from the code uncovered
a circular dependency in the data structure which was not caught in
testing. Two production systems from early adopters are out-of-service
today.
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Jim Jagielski was added as a mentor.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
[ ](fineract) Jim Jagielski
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Roman Shaposhnik:
I'll be following up with the community on the report generation point
which clearly needs to be clarified.
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finalizing the initial release
2. Addressing with the VP of Legal our Hibernate dependency and how to
remedy (removal, exception, etc.)
3. Continue to encourage participation in Fineract collaboration and
communication infrastructure by bringing offline interactions online
and directing collaboration to occur in right channels.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
- Participated in and selected one intern for Google Summer of Code
working on the India Unified Payments Interface.
- Community members attended LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA and
encouraged developers to get involved in the Apache Fineract community.
- Discussion of requirements is taking place via mailing lists for major
enhancements community is anticipating over next quarter.
- Jim Jagielski has joined the ranks of Fineracts mentors.
How has the project developed since the last report?
More communications are happening on the appropriate lists as we have been
directing conversations to happen in the public mailing lists and outside
of previous community silos.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](fineract) Jim Jagielski
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finalising the initial release
2. Improve the communication around the differences between the previous
MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the MifosX
community, website etc.
3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the ongoing
collaboration within the community.
4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
consensus.
5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of traffic
on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX community
and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in it
(see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
interaction.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a great
meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community members
and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
interest in Fineract.
We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout Africa -
we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Individual members of the leading partner organizations building solutions
using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the Fineract
issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and enhancements
they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
setting a good example that other individuals from our partner community
should follow.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Inform the non-technical part of the existing Mifos.org community of
the change in project structure
2. Getting licensing issues figured out for our first release
3. Replacing dependencies that are not compliant with the license policies
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None, currently.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Since the code was initially pushed over, the community is working on the
first release.
In addition to the initial committer new contributors started to work on
the project.
There is a technical conference in Amsterdam in the second week of March
during which some contributors and some community members will be
introduced to developing under the Apache model.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The initial code is now available and the work to meet the license
policies has started.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Inform the non-technical part of the existing Mifos.org community of
the change in project structure
2. Getting new committers up to speed on Apache processes and philosophy
3. Replacing dependencies that are not compliant with the license policies
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None, currently
How has the community developed since the last report?
Since the code was initially pushed over, the community is working on the
first release.
In addition to the initial committer new contributors started to work on
the project.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The initial code is now available and the work to meet the license
policies has started.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Push the initial source code to Apache
2. Inform the non-technical part of the existing Mifos.org community of
the change in project structure
3. Getting new committers up to speed on Apache processes and philosophy
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None, currently.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The project just has started. All members of the initial community are
taking their first steps into the Apache Way. The larger Mifos.org
community is still operating as it was before, and is a mix of 'clients'
who use the platform and services provided by Mifos.org and partners who
leverage more on the platform and extend on it. Most partners have already
been involved and informed about the plans to become an Apache project,
most of whom are part of the current Fineract Apache community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first report.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Given the early state and missing code base, no additional commiters or
PMC members were elected.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[X](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes: