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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.

Project Status:

Current project status: ongoing with surge of new activity (might be entirely
GSOC related) Issues for the board: Not at this time

Membership Data:

Apache Fineract was founded 2017-04-18 (9 years ago)
There are currently 57 committers and 25 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.

Community changes, past quarter:

Project Activity:

Release 1.12 is planned for upcoming month TBD

1.11.0 was released on 2025-03-09.
1.10.1 was released on 2024-12-31.

Community Health:

We're struggling to keep up with the flood of PRs and commentary, over 100
patches in the last month. Some of it is well thought through but much is the
result of not looking first before jumping into the project. We are repeatedly
asking people to read the FAQ and instructions before chiming in with advice
or questions.

About a 150% increase in traffic to the list and issues increased by nearly
400%. The flood of interest may be entirely related to AI generated or to
GSOC program.

GSOC: Currently trying to review 56 Fineract Proposals for GSOC - the most of
any ASF project. We have only five mentors.

Discussion is moving to Matrix on a trial basis, with two channels (gsoc has
46 and general has 28), which replaces the use of Mifos
#fineract slack channel. Matrix is an open source alternative to Slack.

Community over code - PMC member Adam Saghy is organizing the track for
Glasgow. We appreciate the patience in helping him learn the ropes.

Fineract Significant Improvement Proposals (FSIPs)
FSIP process activity has increased this quarter, with high participation from PMC
and community: Large FSIP-9 (standardize on PostgreSQL) passed unanimously,
signaling strong commitment to a more performant, sustainable, and secure
product FSIP-7 (traditional merge strategy) passed unanimously, all commits
are now signed.

Website improvements include now automated periodic checks of our project.

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