[FINOS Community] FINOS Open Developer Platform Announces New Product Features

[James McLeod]

Dear FINOS Community,

As the FINOS Open Developer Platform project continues to grow and build momentum we’re proud to announce a series of new features. These features are available to all FINOS projects and promote a collaborative experience while reducing friction and improving quality and compliance.

Please read on to learn more about the new ODP features and also consider joining our ODP project meetings (next one is on Wednesday 6th May at 12pm ET / 5pm BST)  where you can help the team drive the expansion of our exciting open source financial services reference architecture.

Quality and Compliance Reporting

Within ODP we now have the ability to generate quality and compliance reports across all FINOS GitHub projects. This feature ensures all FINOS repos are correctly configured and all project teams receive GitHub issues highlighting the information missing from their projects. 

As part of our ongoing effort to automate manual tasks, we’re using GitHub Actions to create GitHub Issues for every FINOS repository with a detailed list of validation checks for your team to prioritise, implement and resolve. No more manual checking to hit FINOS quality standards!

We’ll be enabling this feature soon, so look out for an automated GitHub Issue in all your FINOS projects. We’ll continue to align these checks with our Project Support Guidelines (read more on ODP Issues), while making the code reusable.

Automated CLA Community Invites

To improve the onboarding efficiency of contributors into FINOS projects, all contributors with a signed FINOS CCLA will receive a GitHub notification to join the FINOS GitHub Organisation. By automating this process we’ve drastically reduced the lead time between CCLA sign-off and code contribution to FINOS projects. 

For people already covered by a FINOS CCLA, keep an eye on your email, as you’ll receive a notification from GitHub to join FINOS. Then, switch your FINOS membership visibility on GitHub to “public” to let the world know you’re contributing to the growth of fintech open source.

Please contact he...@finos.org if you’re unsure about any of the steps above. 

Meeting Minutes Using GitHub Issues

Last week the FINOS ODP team successfully tested an improved way to manage FINOS meetings using GitHub Issues, keeping agendas and minutes together with team tasks and issues in GitHub. This means FINOS project teams no longer need to switch between GitHub and Confluence to create team actions from meeting minutes.   

Managing meetings in GitHub means context switching is reduced and there’s a better open source experience as FINOS project teams engage through GitHub profiles, writing GitHub Issues and making inline comments. This is also an ideal opportunity to improve your markdown skills!

Enabling meetings in GitHub increases team efficiency and improves team communications. Contact he...@finos.org for us to configure this feature and help you run your first meeting.

Join the FINOS Open Developer Platform if you have ideas for improving the quality and efficiency of FINOS open source contribution or raise a new feature in the ODP GitHub Issues. 

Kind regards,

Mao and James.

Find @maoo and @mcleo-d on GitHub

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James McLeod | Director of Community | FINOS

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