WordPress/contributor-toolkit

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Desktop app that sets up a WordPress core development environment with no prerequisites, applies the work already on a Trac ticket, and submits a contribution back.

Stars: 36
Forks: 13
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 28
Avg merge: 23h 19m
Merged PRs (30d): 72

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: GPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: No beginner labels indexed

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28 open issues indexed

A dev server start whose IPC call rejects leaves the button dead for the session Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#501 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
A script whose descendant outlives npm never finishes: the app waits on close while an orphan holds the pipe Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#498 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Windows: the Gutenberg build opens console windows, and closing one breaks the build Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#497 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Open pull request reports "No connection to GitHub" when the contributor's old fork was transferred and its name redirects Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#494 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Tests: Missing direct unit test coverage for isHandle() in wporg-handle.cjs Open

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 92/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#484 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
The PR-checkout journey measures layout mid-reflow, so it fails intermittently on CI Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#478 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
`updateIncomplete` does not travel with carried work either, leaving a false banner on trunk Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#475 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
The carry moves the applied-patch record in a second write, so a quit between the two leaves #236's state Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#474 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Closing the testing loop: eleven proposals, with a working prototype for each Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#375 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
The renderer's two global error handlers never install: CSP blocks them on every launch Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#374 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
`npm run build` deletes the SQLite integration and the site stops booting Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#372 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Standing on an exact released version, not just a release branch Open

enhancement real-world-git

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#357 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Adopting an existing wordpress-develop checkout Open

enhancement real-world-git

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#355 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2026
"This needs a rebase" is a contribution: closing the loop with the author Open

enhancement real-world-git

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#354 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2026
A trunk update evaluates standing work instead of erasing it Open

enhancement real-world-git

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#353 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2026
The conflicts the app shows are the conflicts Git would show Open

enhancement real-world-git

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#351 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2026
The checkout is a standard Git repository; the app is a porcelain over it Open

enhancement real-world-git tracking-issue

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#350 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2026
A site can only stand on the tip of trunk, never on a release branch Open

enhancement real-world-git

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#349 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Parked ticket work can be lost when the checkout is modified outside the app, with no recovery path Open

bug real-world-git

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#348 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Run PHPunit tests Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#347 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Screenshot harness is still not reproducible across a full run Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#326 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Links can open inside the app instead of the browser Open

bug next-validation ux-polish

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#284 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Reconsider whether the next-action cue should reach beyond the setup checklist Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#278 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Support Gutenberg as a contribution target, not only WordPress Core Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#251 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Uploading a large file to a pull request can die on the request timeout Open

area: patch-flow bug next-validation performance post-v1.0

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#177 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Install/build logs run at maximum verbosity into renderer state that is never rendered Open

area: build-install next-validation performance post-v1.0

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#93 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
First build runs the full production build when a dev build would do; a crashed build still counts as built Open

area: build-install next-validation performance post-v1.0

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#92 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
npm runner IPC bridge can drop early output and completion events Open

bug known-issue post-v1.0

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/contributor-toolkit#43 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2026

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