Welcome aboard Shruthi. I look forward to working with you. On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 2:47 PM Ed Cable <edca...@mifos.org> wrote:
> Hello Mifos and Fineract communities, > > I wanted to formally introduce Shruthi Rajaram of Conflux Technologies who > is just starting out her role as Mifos Community Engineer as of yesterday. > You'll hopefully be seeing a lot of her on the lists as she's stepping into > the role that Nazeer once filled in presiding over the community. I'll let > her introduce herself and her background. > > The Mifos Initiative as fortunate enough to secure funding from DIAL > through one of their catalytic grants to get the Dirty Jobs work done. Her > role is made possible by this grant. > > As you've seen over the past several months, there have been delays in > shipping releases, merging pull requests, fixing bugs, building new APIs. > Having a dedicate person in this role will certainly help with these delays > but I don't want it to reduce the pressure or remove the need for our > committers and community at large to be helping with these vital duties > because our aim is to help make the Fineract and Mifos communities > self-functioning without intervention of funded dedicated developers. > > For the near immediate future, she'll be working on the APIs that our GSOC > students need and getting the outstanding pull requests merged for Fineract > 1.2. > > Her scope of focus across Fineract and Mifos will include: > > > > * - Review and merge pull requests from interns, partners, and volunteers > in our community to the Apache Fineract platform- Review and merge pull > requests from interns, partners, and volunteers in our community to the > Mifos X web and mobile apps- Guide the QA process and release management > process as part of the Apache Way to publicly release Apache Fineract- > Prepare and package corresponding Mifos X web and mobile app releases that > consume the stable Apache Fineract platform. - Triage incoming bug reports > and feature requests. - Fix critical and show-stopping bugs and security > vulnerabilities that arise and release them promptly as hot fixes. - Fix > outstanding P1 bugs and feature requests from our backlog that requires > deep platform-level knowledge that volunteers can’t take on. - Develop new > APIs, integrations, and minor features which are dependencies for other > projects which will be developed upon by interns and volunteers.- > Architectural Design and Technical Onboarding - as new external > contributors come to the project, we need an expert on our platform to give > them an initial technical onboarding and help them properly design new > features they’d like to build - Dev Ops to maintain continuous integration > servers and build pipelines to push merged code to our staging server and > push stable releases to our demo servers. *Join in welcoming Shruthi to > our communities! > > Cheers, > > *Ed Cable* > President/CEO, Mifos Initiative > edca...@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 > > *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org > <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos> > >
