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A compiled, garbage-collected language from Google (2009), built for concurrency and fast builds. Docker and Kubernetes are written in it.

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verify-gofmt cannot fail: it runs gofmt -w before the check Open

kind/bug

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

kubernetes-sigs/prow#953 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2026
caddy fmt deletes an opening brace at the end of the input Open

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

caddyserver/caddy#8046 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
gate (GO): setLeverage intermittently fails with INVALID_SIGNATURE — signed Rawencode(query) and sent Urlencode(query) can differ in key order Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

ccxt/ccxt#30561 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Improve unit tests in sectionParser_test.go Open

L1 recommended for recruits

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

UTDNebula/api-tools#202 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Improve unit tests in discountsParser_test.go Open

L1 recommended for recruits

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

UTDNebula/api-tools#201 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Improve unit tests in courseParser_test.go Open

L1 recommended for recruits

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

UTDNebula/api-tools#200 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
entangle-proxy: kustomize build fails, the CRD base is still named after the c3os group Open

area/entangle bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

kairos-io/kairos#4836 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[optimization:agents-md-curator] AGENTS.md: compress duplicated Debugging & Logging section and merge redundant autopilot rules Open

optimization optimization:agents-md-curator

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

githubnext/gh-aw-cao#13143 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
fix(ui/spend): normalize mnemonic before keystore reattach comparison Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

blinklabs-io/bursa#904 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
docs(parser): clarify State callback lifecycle Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

yanet-platform/ipfw-go#129 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[confmap/provider/googlesecretmanagerprovider] Missing URI format validation for Google Secret Manager resource paths Open

bug confmap/provider/googlesecretmanagerprovider needs triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#51273 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
entangle: serviceRef builds a service address with no namespace, so it never resolves Open

area/entangle area/p2p bug

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

kairos-io/kairos#4829 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
bug: AI Gateway client filter lists "Unknown" twice when NULL and literal Unknown clients coexist Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

coder/coder#29623 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
System Updater (dnf): a package offered by two repos is listed twice and counted twice Open

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

AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell#3523 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
os: Hostname fails for a 64-character hostname on Linux when /proc is unavailable Open

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

golang/go#81616 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
The vorläufig and verdeckt marks are missing from the phone view Open

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

praetorianer777/behoerdenbarriere#105 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Text inside the cursor in the built-in kitty matugen template is not legible Open

bug

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

AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell#3520 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
fix(relay): terminal stream chunk with finish_reason is dropped when client does not request usage Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

QuantumNous/new-api#7489 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Trusted Boot: multi-profile UKIs never unseal, go-ukify leaves .profile out of the PCR 11 measurement Open

bug uki

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

kairos-io/kairos#4827 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bug]: Elasticsearch Query silently accepts timed-out and failed-shard search results Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

ccfos/huatuo#892 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
ai-action-unsafe-sandbox: `--dangerously-skip-permissions` is never reported; the spelling the rule matches is not a Claude Code flag Open

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

sisaku-security/sisakulint#647 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bug]: WebUI collection detail pages fail to load assets on refresh or direct navigation Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

milvus-io/milvus#53670 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Kubernetes get-started create-component.md: Go and C# silently default isMinikube instead of requiring it, unlike TS/Python/Java/HCL Open

area/docs-content Bug pulumi/docs

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 94/100

pulumi/docs#21762 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
VALUE of an empty cell returns #VALUE! instead of 0 Open

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

qax-os/excelize#2416 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
COUNTA does not count an empty string Open

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

qax-os/excelize#2415 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
MINVERSE of a 2x2 matrix returns a matrix of zeros Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

qax-os/excelize#2413 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
kairos-agent upgrade panics on a machine with no recovery partition, which NewUpgradeSpec and Sanitize both treat as optional Open

area/agent bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 92/100

kairos-io/kairos#4820 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Client.UpdateCapabilities is not thread-safe Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

tus/tus-go-client#16 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
p2p recovery: recovery-ssh-server exits at once with "no such flag -log-level", so recovery mode never serves SSH Open

area/p2p area/provider bug

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

kairos-io/kairos#4817 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Ollama backend: no doc on embedding model config or RAM footprint Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Tencent/WeKnora#3480 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
GetUpload clobbers the caller's Upload on a metadata parse error Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

tus/tus-go-client#14 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Response body returned from tusRequest is not closed on HTTP 412 response Open

bug

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

tus/tus-go-client#13 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
UploadStream.Seek sets offset more than RemoteSize Open

bug

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

tus/tus-go-client#12 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
chore(deps): the Go dependency PR limit is an inherited default, and an upstream ceiling now holds 4 of its 5 slots Open

dependencies go

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

devantler-tech/ksail#7135 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
ProfilingJob/TracingJob OpenAPI schemas are unsatisfiable (allOf + additionalProperties:false on disjoint properties) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

ccfos/huatuo#879 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Panic on attempt to use some hash algorithms Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

tus/tus-go-client#11 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Proposal: add action-boundary guidance to the code-review skill Open

needs-triage

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

stacklok/toolhive-catalog#1599 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
CalcCellValue panics on a formula with unbalanced closing parentheses inside a function argument Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

qax-os/excelize#2409 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Bug: C++ tests fail with GCC 16 due to deprecated headers Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

j178/leetgo#424 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
p2p provider: rotate-token aborts, leaving the config and the edgevpn unit on different tokens, because the DNS config is saved to a relative 'oem/' path Open

area/p2p area/provider bug

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

kairos-io/kairos#4808 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bug] “高级自定义”渠道的前端缺少了 Responses -> Message 等转换选项 Open

bug

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

QuantumNous/new-api#7479 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Infinite loop in UploadStream in non-chunked mode when data reader is empty Open

bug

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

tus/tus-go-client#9 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[BUG] Teldrive driver: storage root lists all files flattened (empty path param sent to backend) Open

bug

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

OpenListTeam/OpenList#3107 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Task Plugin 创建异步任务时仅接受 HTTP 200，合法的 201 Created 被误判为 channel error Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

QuantumNous/new-api#7478 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[MEGA] Infinite retry loop on session invalidation (-3 EACCESS) causes "unexpected end of JSON input" Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

rclone/rclone#9952 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Package Request]: sshm Open

Help-Wanted Needs-Triage Package-Request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

microsoft/winget-pkgs#437907 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
[Bug] Hardcoded backend API URL in vite.config.ts breaks dev proxy on default port 8080 and custom environment Open

type/bug

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

apache/devlake#9154 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2026
bug(scan): TrimSpace corrupts valid filenames from git ls-files -z Open

bug

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

alibaba/open-code-review#1493 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Usage on model step-5-preview (StepFun) stays unpriced - missing from every pricing source Open

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

kenn-io/agentsview#1862 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
pr-feedback(#541): the spec-exemption fixture says "two rows down" and means one Open

claude-make-follow-up-issues pr-feedback

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

WonderForgeLabs/gooey#561 · Opened Sep 20, 2026

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