Hello community,
As Mifos sets on off its next phase, independent and separate from Grameen
Foundation, the community will now have the opportunity to take on greater
responsibilities to maintain the product and project moving forward. There a
number of key tasks around maintaining infrastructure that we are seeking
volunteers to help lead.
The remaining members of the Mifos team are slowly transitioning away from
their roles as paid staff so we want to begin this discussion to prepare the
community to take on new responsibilities.
Over the coming weeks, we'll start other discussion on maintenance of other
tools like translation and documentation. Ultimately, we would like to
group interested community members into teams of volunteers to oversee core
areas of the project and infrastructure.
Please respond to this thread if you'd like assist with some of the below
activities:
*Web Infrastructure:*
Fortunately most of our tools are hosted solutions that we don't directly
have to administer and maintain. A number of sites and resources we must
directly administer and will need additional help. These include
maintaining Mifos.org which is built on Drupal and hosted on Amazon, and our
build server which contains our test servers and continous integration
servers. Remote systems administration is needed for the servers and
application of security patches and bug fixes to the Drupal site as needed.
Jim Stamper and Keith Pierce have already express interested in helping
maintain this infrastructure.
*Collaboration Infrastructure:*
Day to day maintenance of our collaboration and communication tools
including our mailing lists, wiki, issue tracker, IRC channel, etc. All of
these tools are hosted externally so the main assistance is needed with
administration of accounts and permissions and moderation of content. Please
reply to this thread if you would like to assist with moderation of the
mailing list powered by sourceforge.net, accessing mailing list archives on
GoogleGroups and GMANE, maintaining IRC chat log archives, and administering
permissions for MifosForge which hosts our JIRA and Confluence tools.
As it always has been, the lifeblood of our community is the content we
share and the conversations we have on the mailing lists. We ask that as
members of the community you be even more proactive to ask questions, share
content, and support each other through these tools.
*Source Code Repository:*
The Mifos source code is hosted in a git repository on sourceforge.net.
We're looking to distribute maintenance of the repository around multiple
key community members. Please reply if you're interested in getting commit
privileges to help maintain the source code.
Stay tuned for more opportunities to help transition the infrastructure of
the project and we welcome the help of anyone from the community.
Best,
Ed Cable
Mifos Community Manager
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