## 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:
No issues requiring Board attention at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Fineract was founded 2017-04-19 (4 years ago)
There are currently 42 committers and 19 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1.



## Project Activity:

Fineract 1.5 was released in May 2021. Release for Fineract 1.6 is tentatively planned for Q1 of 2022.

Mike updating his demo instance provided to the community as issues arise so that the community has an updated bleeding edge version of Fineract running all the time. Mifos Initiative also has an alternate demo instance available for testing with the latest Mifos X versions.

Petri has improved the following components over the past few weeks: Moved our CI pipeline to Github action away from Travis which has made us see an improvement in review and build time on Github. Upgrade from Jersey 1.x to 2.x containing the latest changes and improvements making Fineract more stable. Improved test coverage of key components, Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.6.x, Moved us away from XML-based config to Java Configuration which offers better code maintenance. Automatic inclusion of 3rd party licenses in the distribution,  Completely ditch the use of Drizzle JDBC Driver

Petri, Aleks, and Mike have been actively reviewing pull requests from other contributors over the past few months. We have also had Francis Guchie doing QA and testing the functionalities together with the UI.

Members of the community have been having important discussions around creating a roadmap of important features to be implemented over the next year especially around Fineract 1.x which is currently on active support given it has hundreds of deployments around the world.

Aleks has been improving the build speed of Fineract 1.x and improving various configurations to make the software safe and easy to deploy over the past few months.


## Community Health:

  • dev@fineract.apache.org had a 2% increase in traffic in the past quarter (229 emails compared to 224)
  • issues@fineract.apache.org had a 42% increase in traffic in the past quarter (467 emails compared to 327)
  • 76 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (61% increase)
  • 76 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (204% increase)
  • 121 commits in the past quarter (22% increase)
  • 20 code contributors in the past quarter (5% increase)
  • 128 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (3% increase)
  • 132 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (3% increase)
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