Apache Fineract July Board Report

[Myrle Krantz <my...@apache.org>]

Hi Fineracters,

The next monthly Apache board meeting is coming up. After this meeting
Fineract will have been out of incubation for 3 months. In the first 3
months as a TLP Apache projects are required to perform monthly
reporting. After that we shift to quarterly reporting. So our next
board report after this one will be due in October.

In the past, I've asked you all to contribute a short description of
your activities to the report.  I didn't feel it fair to you, for me
to describe what you are doing. Because I haven't gotten any response
(and hence the report has been rather spare), this time I've gone
through the mailing list and the repository and picked out a few
highlights.

In particular I've put together a random selection of the feature work
that has reached the repository, and I've checked over our
responsiveness in the repository.

I believe that we are doing rather well at keeping up with our Jira
tickets, but we're doing a poor job responding to pull requests. That
may be part of the reason our community is not growing. Whatever the
reason, the lack of growth means that we have several functions
fulfilled by a single person.  This is dangerous for the community.
For example if Nazeer wins the lottery and decides to teach surfing
lessons in Australia, nobody will be merging pull requests at all
anymore.  I will report it this way to the board; I don't expect the
board will do anything about this, because that is our job.

Again: We have a lack of community growth and a lack of
diversification in the community which endangers our project.

In any case, please check over the board report and add anything that
you find relevant:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/2017-07+July+Report

Best Regards,
Myrle Krantz

V.P., Apache Fineract