## 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 19 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

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

## Project Activity:

### Project Release Details:

Fineract 1.5.0 was released on May 24, 2021 including 90+ enhancements/bug fixes. Thanks to Aleks Vidakovic and Petri Tuomola for serving as release managers. Release notes can be found at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12345040&styleName=Html&projectId=12319420&Create=Create&atl_token=A5KQ-2QAV-T4JA-FDED_d421ef012122870af9f9849d4184ab4c7d8c71d8_lin. 

  • Luis Espinoza from Fiter has been trying to more effectively utilize the JIRA agile management tools to help to better organize the community across development sprints leading up to the next release. Backlog has been created at https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=236&projectKey=FINERACT. Ed Cable will align this with his ongoing efforts to enable several partners in the ecosystem to contribute feature enhancements they've been working on.  
  • Javier Borkenztain has organized and arranged a full 3 day fintech track for ApacheCon and all speakers have been notified and are planning their tasks.
  • Joseph Makara has been making important updates to improve the Security and Robustness of Fineract 1.x with help and reviews from Petri.
  • The PMC is currently having discussions on adding new committers over the next few months to reinvigorate the community.
  • Alot of support questions by users are been answered in a timely manner.
  • *CVE-2020-17514: Disabled Hostname verification for HTTPS * was fixed by
    Michael Vorburger and the fix announced by James Dailey


### GSoC Updates and Details:

Five interns were selected by Apache Fineract for Google Summer of Code and all are on track with their projects. A write-up done by Mifos Initiative welcoming them to the community can be found at https://mifos.org/blog/gsoc-2021/: 

  • Danish Jamal
    • Android SDK & Fineract Client
    • Mentor(s): Chinmay Kulkarni & Shashank Priyadarshi
    • Project to update the Android SDK and have the Android client consume it is on track. 
  • Kinar Sharma 
    • Mobile Wallet – Fineract-CN
    • Mentor(s): Devansh Aggarwal, Garvit Agarwal, Victor Romero, Shivansh Tiwari 
    • Update: Project to implement a mobile wallet app directly connecting to Fineract CN is on track with architecture for app implemented and now Fineract CN APIs being made securely available via API gateway. 
  • Varun Jain
    • Fineract CN Mobile app
    • Mentor(s): Ahmad Jawid Muhammadi and Rajan Maurya
    • Update: Project to enhance mobile field operations app for Fineract CN is on track. Progress has been documented in this gist


## Community Health:

Community is healthy with a slide decline in mailing list and Gihub Activities over the past few months. This is probably due to the Software getting more stable and people getting a better understanding on how Fineract works.

There has been an increase in the mailing list and Github activities over the past 1 month relative to 2 months ago as GSoC student continue to contribute to the project.

  • dev@fineract.apache.org had a 9% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (96 emails compared to 105)
  • issues@fineract.apache.org had a 74% decrease in traffic in the past quarter (222 emails compared to 846)
  • 13 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-77% change)
  • 8 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-77% change)
  • 66 commits in the past quarter (-42% change)
  • 5 code contributors in the past quarter (-64% change)
  • 91 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-57% change)
  • 95 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-33% change)


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