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Documentation for the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI)

Is EESSI/docs beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, EESSI/docs merged 31 of 40 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 4 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars
14
Forks
54
Open beginner issues
4
Indexed issues
35
Avg merge
11h 2m
Merged PRs (30d)
41
Dominant language
Python
License
GPL-2.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 7, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 8, 2026
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No code of conduct
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How to contribute to EESSI/docs

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's GPL-2.0 license.
  3. Pick one of the 4 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • Check the date for the Pre-FOSDEM EESSI Hackathon in training-events/index.md
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

    EESSI/docs#949 · 1 comment ·

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  • FEATURE: Have a link for toplevel sections
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    Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    EESSI/docs#941 ·

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  • Document CVMFS partial replication feature
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

    EESSI/docs#913 ·

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  • Document the use of lmod module family to avoid loading both a local + EESSI software stack
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    good first issue

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

    EESSI/docs#836 ·

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  • Document directories where different MPI builds should go into
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    EESSI/docs#814 · 1 comment ·

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  • update software overview to consume data from EESSI API
    May be free again Open
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    EESSI/docs#629 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Pinned dependency warning
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    question

    Difficulty 2/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 22/100

    EESSI/docs#615 · 2 comments ·

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  • Document EESSI environment variables
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    EESSI/docs#598 ·

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  • Icons in GPU support table may be confusing
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    EESSI/docs#566 ·

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  • document motivation for EasyBuild configuration settings
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    EESSI/docs#519 · 1 comment ·

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  • Documentation build should be strict (especially in CI)
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    EESSI/docs#512 · 2 comments ·

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  • Clear error when `install_cuda_host_injections` fails to run easybuild
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    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 35/100

    EESSI/docs#496 ·

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  • Configure repository to only clone main branch
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    Difficulty 2/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 12/100

    EESSI/docs#494 ·

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  • update contribution policy to mention "fake" module files for missing software installations
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    EESSI/docs#457 ·

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  • be consistent with "data" vs "files" in CernVM-FS tutorial
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

    EESSI/docs#455 ·

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  • add "talks" section
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    Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 62/100

    EESSI/docs#407 ·

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  • make colums in software overview page less wide
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    EESSI/docs#403 · 1 comment ·

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  • Automatically generate the columns for the software overview page
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    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 35/100

    EESSI/docs#402 · 2 comments ·

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  • Include builds for accelerators in software overview page
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    EESSI/docs#354 · 1 comment ·

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  • Document setup for diskless/offline batch nodes
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    EESSI/docs#347 ·

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  • document how to use installations for a different CPU microarchitecture / GPU builds
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 42/100

    EESSI/docs#344 ·

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  • Use EESSI Action and Quarto to give more dynamic documentation
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    EESSI/docs#288 ·

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  • CUDA setup description incomplete
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    EESSI/docs#274 · 2 comments ·

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  • document use of EESSI as backend in Ramble
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    EESSI/docs#246 ·

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  • Document installation and configuration of Squid proxy
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    EESSI/docs#131 ·

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  • Simplify documentation
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    EESSI/docs#123 · 1 comment ·

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  • Document setup
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    EESSI/docs#78 · 1 comment ·

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  • Improvements for build nodes documentation
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    EESSI/docs#72 ·

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  • document installation procedure of compatibility layer
    May be free again Open
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    EESSI/docs#64 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Describe client minimum requirements
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    EESSI/docs#63 ·

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  • document available resources
    May be free again Open
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    documentation

    EESSI/docs#61 · 1 comment · 3 assignees ·

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  • Make https://eessi.github.io/ (webserver root) work
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    EESSI/docs#26 · 8 comments ·

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  • Sort partners alphabetically
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

    EESSI/docs#23 · 5 comments ·

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  • add "Onboarding" page to docs
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    EESSI/docs#6 ·

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