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Stars: 146
Forks: 762
Open beginner issues: 5
Indexed issues: 91
Avg merge: 2d 22h
Merged PRs (30d): 232

Dominant language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 16, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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89 open issues indexed

py-breathe should depend on doxygen@:1.9.6 when @:4.36 Open

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

spack/spack-packages#6473 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Installation issue: umpire ~cuda ~rocm (error in initconrit_hardware_entries) Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#6449 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Installation issue: mctc-lib build_system=meson ignores default_library Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#6426 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Installation issue: python build errors on windows Open

build-error

spack/spack-packages#6393 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Installation issue: mvapich-plus Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#6334 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Installation issue: Scotch always requires Zlib Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#6299 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
openblas: the build phase builds and runs the test suite, defeating the run_tests guard (hard failure on macOS x86_64) Open

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

spack/spack-packages#6278 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 29, 2026
GROMACS, libCEED: CPU Arch target not respected Open

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

spack/spack-packages#6160 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Installation issue: dyninst@12.3.0 Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#6040 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Use latest R 4.6.1 by the default Open

spack/spack-packages#5998 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Installation issue: PETSc with optimization flags Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#5948 · 13 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Testing issue: py-matplotlib fails to execute build time tests Open

test-error

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

spack/spack-packages#5931 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
"make: *** internal error: invalid --jobserver-auth string" Open

bug triage

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

spack/spack-packages#5968 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026
cuda fails to install ./cuda-installer: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2 Open

bug triage

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

spack/spack-packages#5969 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Improve handling of cxxstd variants in RADIUSS packages Open

spack/spack-packages#5866 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 3, 2026
cp2k: native build enabled by default Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

spack/spack-packages#5780 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Installation issue: netcdf-c build_system=cmake libtirpc issue Open

build-error

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

spack/spack-packages#5738 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Testing issue: hdf5 run test unable to find C++ compiler Open

test-error

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

spack/spack-packages#5616 · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Installation issue: `font-util` is not sandboxed Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#5590 · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Installation issue: hipblaslt Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#5583 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2026
LLVM compiler discovery can register external `llvm+clang` even when `libclang` is not build-usable Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

spack/spack-packages#5553 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
hdf5-blosc: Ill-formatted install breaks hdf5 plugin loader on large installs Open

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

spack/spack-packages#5507 · Opened Jul 7, 2026
Installation issue: `gcc@16 % gcc+mold ^mold@2.38` fails, so do attempts to constraint `mold`'s version Open

build-error

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

spack/spack-packages#5453 · Opened Jul 4, 2026
Installation issue: py-torch@2.12 Open

build-error

spack/spack-packages#5434 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 2, 2026
Debug version of openfoam(.com) package Open

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

spack/spack-packages#5407 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2026
charliecloud: update SquashFUSE dependency Open

bug dependencies good first issue

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

spack/spack-packages#5400 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Installation issue: gloo Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#5389 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Installation issue: orc@1.6.5 ^abseil-cpp@20240722.0 fails to build (cxxstd incompatibility) Open

build-error

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

spack/spack-packages#5331 · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Installation issue: gcc@master not working "Configuration aarch64-apple-darwin25.5.0 not supported" Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#5311 · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Installation issue: py-torch not buildable in air gapped systems for ROCm Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#5302 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Installation issue: LLVM 19 does not compile with glibc-2.42 because of missing `termio.h` Open

build-error

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

spack/spack-packages#5287 · Opened Jun 22, 2026
py-scikit-build-core should not pull in c, cxx, and fortran when not testing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

spack/spack-packages#5286 · Opened Jun 22, 2026
Installation issue: Packages depending on swig and numpy build with gcc@14: Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#5269 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2026
Installation issue: hdf5+fortran with intel-oneapi-mpi and gcc Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#5251 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Installation issue: any package that uses go Open

build-error

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

spack/spack-packages#5180 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Installation issue: py-setuptools-scm Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#5165 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2026
`flit` and `flit-core` updated to `4.0.0` Open

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

spack/spack-packages#4845 · 1 comment · Opened May 14, 2026
Installation issue: gromacs +cufftmp Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#4815 · 1 reaction · Opened May 12, 2026
Tag `releases/latest` still points to previous release Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

spack/spack-packages#4805 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 11, 2026
Installation issue: capnproto Open

build-error

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

spack/spack-packages#4783 · Opened May 11, 2026
Installation issue: rocblas on an air-gapped system Open

build-error

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

spack/spack-packages#4777 · 2 comments · Opened May 10, 2026
Installation issue: py-anvio@8 Open

build-error

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

spack/spack-packages#4729 · Opened May 7, 2026
Installation issue: tk@9.0.2 Open

build-error

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

spack/spack-packages#4537 · Opened Apr 28, 2026
use automake/libtool in environment to build non-spack software Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

spack/spack-packages#4515 · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Installation issue: paraview Open

build-error

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

spack/spack-packages#4452 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 23, 2026
`CachedCMakePackage` does not find `CachedCMakeBuilder` classes in package modules Open

bug triage

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

spack/spack-packages#4446 · Opened Apr 22, 2026
zlib 1.3.2 mirror not available Open

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

spack/spack-packages#4439 · Opened Apr 22, 2026
Conflicts ignoring on external packages Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

spack/spack-packages#4436 · Opened Apr 22, 2026
Updating Magma recipe to latest release Open

feature

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

spack/spack-packages#4355 · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Installation issue: amdblis@5.2 Open

build-error

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

spack/spack-packages#4335 · Opened Apr 16, 2026

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