The Quarterly report is now submitted: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/2024-10+%28October%29+Fineract+ Report+to+the+ASF+Board
## Description: At Apache Fineract®, our mission is to build, maintain and enhance a cloud-ready core banking system for robust, scalable, and secure operations of financial institutions. Fineract® provides a reliable, robust, and affordable solution for entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and service providers. We believe in financial services for everyone, including and especially for the unbanked and underbanked. Fineract® is aimed at innovative mobile and cloud-based solutions, and enables digital transaction accounts for all. ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing. Delays and difficulty in getting out a release. Issues for the board: In anticipation of new CRA requirements and similar, the issues around security fixes and releases may become critical. This project is fairly unique in the ASF in how directly and immediately it is used by commercial entities, in direct mission critical production systems used as interfaces with end customers. Therefore, it will be important for the project to establish the CRA/open source stewards checks and protocols consistent with ASF wide policies. ## Membership Data: Apache Fineract was founded 2017-04-18 (7 years ago) There are currently 54 committers and 24 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3 [Autogenerated. I calculate this as ~ 2: 1) Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Adam Saghy on 2023-07-10. - Kristof Jozsa was added as committer on 2024-09-24 - Marta Jankovics was added as a committer on 2024-10-10 ## Project Activity: Release 1.9 on 2024-01-12 Release 1.10.0 process was started in April 2024 but is stalled. There are open security issues. Recent releases: 1.7.3 was released on 2023-03-24. (Deprecated) 1.8.4 was released on 2023-03-24. (Deprecated) 1.8.3 was released on 2023-01-16. (Deprecated) ## Community Health: The release process is too complicated and needs be streamlined. We would welcome and experienced ASF hand to get to a better release process. Community activity includes an active listserv and roughly 80 Pull Requests per quarter, largely refactoring and adding functionality around lending capabilities. There is a certain amount of community discussion that occurs on the Mifos slack channels; I do remind people that bringing discussion back to the project is vitally important. We’ve also managed to make some formal Fineract significant improvements projects (FSIP) a visible priority with votes to adopt them. Votes are noted on the wiki pages. Fineract Significant Improvement Proposals: FSIP-1: Modular Security Architecture. Designed. Awaiting resources. FSIP-2 Scarf Data Tracking. Defined. In process. Stable. Evaluation to come in a few months. FSIP-3: Continue Enhancing New Progressive Loan Module to Support Interest-Bearing Loans . Defined. In process. Major enhancements later. FSIP-4 Cucumber Testing Framework. Defined. In process. On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 12:59 PM James Dailey <jamespdai...@gmail.com> wrote: > All - I will be submitting the quarterly report to the Apache Software > Foundation (ASF) as chair of the PMC (project management committee) on Sept > 9th. For those unfamiliar with this, please see past reports on the wiki. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/AuSnAw > > As an ASF top level project, this is our important report, due each > quarter. > > A draft is underway here =>. > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/2024-10+%28October%29+Fineract+Report+to+the+ASF+Board > > To summarize: We have added one committer recently and had a stream of > contributions. We’ve also managed to make some formal Fineract significant > improvements projects (FSIP) a visible priority. That said, our community > is still struggling to fix key issues or get out a release in > recent months. Partly, I think the release process is too complex. We may > also have good progress to report out on the testing FSIP, and a goal of > making the project easier to build. > > >
