## Description:

The mission of Apache Fineract is 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.

## Issues:

There are no issues requiring board attention. 

## Membership Data:
Apache Fineract was founded 2017-04-19 (4 years ago)
There are currently 41 committers and 20 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Aleksandar Vidakovic was added to the PMC on 2020-10-11
- No new committers. Last addition was Percy Enoabane on 2020-10-02.

## Project Activity:

  • 1.5.0 is under review but not yet released. 
  • 1.4.0 was released on 2020-09-18.
  • Activity of developers fixing bugs and adding features are regularly reported on list by Michael Vorburger.
  • Over the past two quarters there has been a gradual uptick in contributions from individuals at organizations building commercial solutions powered by Fineract, positive signs of moving towards a more functional contribution model with upstream development being followed. 
  • Community members led by Javier Borkenztain are organizing for ApacheCon2021 with a dedicated Fintech/Fineract track once again. 
  • There are a number of GSOC projects being proposed and discussed. At this point in time we anticipate requesting 5 to 6 slots with strong candidates applying for the 4th phase of our machine learning credit scorecards, improvements and enhancements to Fineract from our backlog, ongoing work to the Android SDK and client, mapping of the Fineract APIs to Open Banking APIs, and Fineract CN mobile.
  • Aspiring GSoC students are making contributions to the code base as we receive applicants for projects.

  • New Contributor: Joseph Makara is making some significant contributions and making sure Fineract is more secure and robust. Petri Tuomola and Manthan Surkar have been providing feedback to assist him.

  • 1.5.0 is under review but not yet released. Release Manager Aleksandar
    Vidakovic is doing the final triage for 1.5.0 release of Fineract 1.x

## Community Health:

  • Over the past 3 months, there has been a gradual decline in activities on the mailing list, JIRA issues and code contributions. This is something we have seen over the past 6 months probably due to the effects of covid-19.
  • Overall, the community is healthy with end users asking support questions on list and contributors helping them out.


  • dev@fineract.apache.org had a 57% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (121 emails compared to 285)
  • 53 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-37% decrease)
  • 33 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-42% decrease)
  • 102 commits in the past quarter (-38% decrease)
  • 16 code contributors in the past quarter (33% increase)
  • 124 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-28% decrease)



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