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Average annotated difficulty: 3.8/5 across 2,074 issues.
10% of 2,074 time estimates are one day or less.

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MathWorks' numerical computing environment (1984), proprietary, and common in engineering, control theory and signal processing.

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[MATLAB][CI][Matlab] Move Matlab workflows from actions/cache to apache/infrastructure-actions/stash/ Open

Component: Continuous Integration Component: MATLAB Type: enhancement

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

apache/arrow#51391 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Remove dead `stimloopsplitter_calc` schema from main Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 94/100

VH-Lab/NDIcalc-vis-matlab#107 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
ft_platform_supports('stats') errors on undefined exclude_mfiles, so ft_defaults no longer adds external/stats Open

bug unconfirmed

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

fieldtrip/fieldtrip#2618 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Difference in `ff2n` results. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

gnu-octave/statistics#498 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Difference in `anova2` results. Open

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

gnu-octave/statistics#497 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Bad sample interval written due to floating point truncation Open

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

equinor/segyio#665 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
readMat() fails on a .mat file with an empty text field (regression in 3.8.0) Open

bug

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

HenrikBengtsson/R.matlab#59 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2026
resampledesign: reported "maximum number of unique permutations" is k^n, but the generator draws from (k!)^n for >2 repeated measures Open

enhancement question unconfirmed

Difficulty 2/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 83/100

fieldtrip/fieldtrip#2615 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
DiffEqGPU Lorenz benchmark callback is incompatible with its committed SciMLBase 3 environment Open

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

SciML/SciMLBenchmarks.jl#1846 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Note: the ndi-documents signed-url-set JOB route has never been called against a live server Open

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

VH-Lab/NDI-matlab#971 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
ft_connectivity_psi: the last nbin+1 frequency bins include the raw top-bin coherency, and are -Inf with normalize='yes' Open

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

fieldtrip/fieldtrip#2609 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2026
DOC: Kilosort 2.5/3 rezToPhy writes a scaled identity as whitening_mat.npy (KS2.0 wrote the real Wrot) Open

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

MouseLand/Kilosort#1047 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
BUG (KS2/2.5/3): get_whitening_matrix normalizes covariance by ceil((Nbatch-1)/nSkipCov) but accumulates floor(..)+1 batches Open

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

MouseLand/Kilosort#1046 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
[Bug]: matlab-mcp-hermes-fix Open

bug comp/tools needs-repro P2 platform/windows tool/mcp type/bug

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

NousResearch/hermes-agent#96645 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2026
MOLE.jl README updates Open

Documentation Good first issue MOLE.jl

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

csrc-sdsu/mole#443 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Finite blocking time in readblock Open

enhancement

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

gnu-octave/symbolic#1341 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Update FailOnSpecificWarningsPlugin doc to explain usage vs verifyWarningFree Open

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

mathworks/test-framework-extensions#3 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
[26.1] genPerfTVs.py passes 'AllChannels' (invalid) — should be 'allChannels' (typo blocks F08 perf TV generation) Open

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

NVIDIA/aerial-cuda-accelerated-ran#38 · Opened Apr 29, 2026
`pop_importbids` fails silently or crashes when input `bidsfolder` is a MATLAB `string` object (requires `char`) Open

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

sccn/EEG-BIDS#246 · Opened Feb 10, 2026
repeated Measure ANOVA with two independant group in LIMO Open

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

sccn/eeglab#913 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 4, 2026
ZCAT9问题的88-90行的疑似错误 Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 64/100

BIMK/PlatEMO#186 · Opened Feb 3, 2026
Testing `ttupdate` Open

help wanted

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

TopoToolbox/topotoolbox3#137 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 24, 2025
Dated documentation on `--config.ignore` option of `bids-validator` Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

bids-standard/bids-examples#489 · Opened Mar 28, 2025
`description` has a typo of `multiscale` as `multsicale` Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 65/100

llnl/MultiscaleTopOpt#1 · Opened Dec 23, 2024
Prompt throws an error when there are files are in cell Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 65/100

sccn/EEG-BIDS#228 · Opened Sep 2, 2024
erp2contraipsi.m does not carry over accepted/rejected/invalid ntrials properly Open

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

ucdavis/erplab#197 · Opened Sep 2, 2024
icassoDendrogram.m incompatible with Matlab 2023a and later: fix Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

trendscenter/gift#12 · Opened Nov 14, 2023
Function handle accessor not colored after 4 whitespaces, cannot be separated from anonymous function in case of line continuations Open

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

mathworks/MATLAB-Language-grammar#58 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2023
No color .eps output. Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 62/100

ucdavis/erplab#155 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 2, 2022
MATLAB Strings are per default magenta (not gray) Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 65/100

notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus#10336 · Opened Aug 5, 2021
Fix code in the of SixAxisFTOffsetEstimation in the examples folder of the matlab bindings Open

Bindings: Matlab Platform: Linux

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

gbionics/idyntree#830 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 13, 2021
remove_unreferenced documentation does not accurately reflect the functionality Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 70/100

alecjacobson/gptoolbox#82 · Opened Jan 8, 2019

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