The incubating Apache Fineract community believes it is time to graduate to TLP.
Apache Fineract entered incubation in December of 2015. Since then, we've overcome technical challenges to remove Category X dependencies, and made 3 releases. Our most recent release contains binary convenience artifacts. We are a very helpful and engaged community, ready to answer all questions and feedback directed to us via the user list. We've added three committers, and are actively pursuing others. While we do still have issues to address raised by means of the maturity model, all projects are ongoing processes, and we believe we no longer need the incubator to continue addressing these issues. We are deeply grateful to our Mentors: (Ross Gardler, Roman Shaposhnik, Greg Stein, and Jim Jagielski) for accompanying us on this journey, and to other members of the incubator and Infra team who have provided us with support and advice. We'd like to return these valuable resources "to the pool" at this point so that other projects can benefit from them. To inform the discussion, here is some basic project information: Project status: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/fineract.html Project website: http://fineract.incubator.apache.org/ Project documentation: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Fineract+User+Zone Maturity assessment: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Maturity+Evaluation <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Maturity+Evaluation> DRAFT of the board resolution is at the bottom of this email and can also be found here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Graduation+Resolution Proposed PMC size: 12 members Total number of committers: 14 members PMC affiliation (* indicated chair) Conflux Technologies (3) The Mifos Initiative (1) * Kuelap Inc (2) Musoni Systems (1) SanJose Foundation (1) Booking.com (1) Red Hat (1) Capital One (1) Partiko (1) 4,525 commits on develop 255 closed PR”s on GitHub 89 contributors across all branches dev list averaged ~192 msgs/month in 2016 user list averaged ~13 msgs/month in 2016 81 unique posters 399 issues created 123 issues resolved committer affiliations Conflux Technologies The Mifos Initiative Kuelap Inc Musoni Systems SanJose Foundation Booking.com Red Hat Capital One Partiko Intrasoft Technologies Limited Thank you, Myrle Krantz Resolution: Establish the Apache Fineract Project 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 data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud architectures. 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. 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 <vishwasb...@apache.org> * Edward Cable <edca...@apache.org> * Markus Geiss <mage...@apache.org> * Sander van der Heijden <shey...@apache.org> * Ishan Khanna <ishan1...@apache.org> * Myrle Krantz <myrl...@apache.org> * Terence Monteiro <tere...@apache.org> * Adi Nayaran Raju <rajua...@apache.org> * Gaurav Saini <gsai...@apache.org> * Nazeer Hussain Shaik <naz...@apache.org> * Jim Jagielski <j...@apache.org> * Michael Vorburger <vor...@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.
