Schedule

Board meeting: January 16th
Report due to board: January 9th
Plan to complete by: January 7th

Report

## Description: 
Apache Fineract (\’fīn-,ә-,rakt\) is an open source system for core banking as
a platform. Fineract provides a reliable, robust, and affordable solution for
entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and service providers to offer
financial services to the world’s 2 billion underbanked and unbanked.
   
## Issues: 
The Fineract community maintains two active projects
  • Fineract 1.x - Current generation product which is widely used 
  • FIneract-CN (including microservices front end UI) - Next Generation framework which is still under active development and has been officially released

Release management on Fineract 1.x was largely led by contributors associated with "The Mifos Initiative". For 2019, the indications are that these contributors shall be shifting their attention to Fineract-CN. The PMC shall be closely monitoring the impact of the same on the ability of the community to continue shipping timely releases and responding to security issues raised around Fineract 1.x.

Signs of disengagement have been observed within the community due to lack of clarity on the long term plans around Fineract 1.x and on-going delays in releasing the initial version of Fineract-CN. Committers are initiating work on publishing a roadmap for Fineract-CN which would answer key questions like "would Fineract-CN be a drop-in replacement for Fineract 1.* ?" and provide target timelines for key feature availability (and possibly feature parity with commonly used modules in Fineract 1.x) on Fineract-CN.

## Activity:

  • Fineract 1.x

A major release (1.2) has been shipped and committers are working on shipping version 1.3 targeted for the 2nd week of January 2019

  • FIneract-CN

Ongoing activity around improving build time and ensuring license compliance in preparation for an initial release. Additional details follow

→ Isaac Kamga has reduced the build time for Fineract CN demo-server by 30% ( 7 minutes ), making it faster for developers to test their changes locally.

→ Isaac Kamga has documented the dependencies that need to be addressed for Apache compliance at Compliance Report and also worked on cleaning up the instructions for building Fineract-CN alongside Juhan Aasaru.

→ New contributors have been testing out Courage Angeh's GSOC project around Fineract-CN containerization and there have been some engaging discussions around the same on the mailing lists.

   
## Health report: 
Both active projects continue to remain healthy.
   
## PMC changes: 
   
 - Currently 14 PMC members. 
 - Mexina Daniel was added to the PMC on Tue Oct 30 2018 
   
## Committer base changes: 
   
 - Currently 31 committers. 
 - New commmitters: 
    - Mark van Veen was added as a committer on Mon Oct 22 2018 
    - James Dailey was added as a committer on Fri Oct 05 2018 
    - Cabrel Kemfang was added as a committer on Fri Oct 26 2018 
   
## Releases: 
   
 - Fineract 1.2.0 was released on Thu Dec 06 2018 
   
## Mailing list activity:   
The user list has been merged into the more active dev list, which explains the slight uptick in activity observed here.
 - dev@fineract.apache.org:  
    - 277 subscribers (up 13 in the last 3 months): 
    - 462 emails sent to list (440 in previous quarter) 
   
 - issues@fineract.apache.org:  
    - 16 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months): 
    - 781 emails sent to list (258 in previous quarter) 
   
   
## JIRA activity: 
Fineract 1.X

Slight uptick in issue creation and marked increase in issue resolution

 - 27 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 
 - 64 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months 
Fineract CN

Marked decrease in both issue creation and resolution

 - 12 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 
 - 10 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
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