+1 from my side. Arnold has really demonstrated all the merits of an effective upstream contributor and I think can have an even more outsized impact once he's a committer and can help in guiding other upstream contributions and being more hands-on with the release process as well.
Ed On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 4:33 PM Aleksandar Vidakovic < chee...@monkeysintown.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > ... I guess one or the other among you saw Arnold Galovics' work around > Fineract's Git repo, his pull requests and his messages here in the mailing > list. Arnold added in a very short time not only a significant amount of > pull requests (10), but he tackled some long overdue issues that all of us > have already struggled: > > - transaction safety > - database locks > - ... and most prominently database independence (well, at least > PostgreSQL support in addition to MySQL) by replacing Flyway with Liquibase > and replacing all database (MySQL) dependent expressions with SQL standards > > He has already more improvements lined up; he'll certainly let us all know > here on the mailing list about the details when he gets to it. I'm already > looking to see these contributions. > > You'll see that one or the other pull request seems a bit larger than > usual, but Arnold's still paid attention that his changes can be reviewed > and that they are backward compatible (in itself already a major > challenge). > > And finally, in this relatively small timeframe he somehow managed to be > responsible for 19% of 2022's contributions. > > This is why I am proposing to add Arnold as a Fineract committer. > > Please reply with your vote to this message. > > Cheers, > > Aleks > > P.S.: +1 > -- *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>
