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Indexed issues
37
Avg merge
5d 22h
Merged PRs (30d)
4
Dominant language
Python
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 4, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 18, 2026
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  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 MIT license.
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  • The packaging docs say not to use license
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    Julian/mkpkg#120 ·

  • If a CHANGELOG exists, use its contents for the current version in autogenerated github release notes
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#98 ·

  • mkpkg foo.py should produce a package called foo
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

    Julian/mkpkg#72 ·

  • Copy the cffi wheel building from libraw-cffi
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#70 ·

  • Cache with actions/cache
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#68 ·

  • Copy cibuildwheel + sdist setup from libraw-cffi
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/mkpkg#67 ·

  • Be careful with badges from RTD since apparently it's case sensitive on package names
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/mkpkg#66 ·

  • Nested mkpkg tox runs should not hit the network
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/mkpkg#64 ·

  • mkpkg --docs doesn't put the docs envs in the github CI workflow
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#62 ·

  • Make coverage token public or switch to their new action
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#61 ·

  • Move to build-deps + use-deps in GHA CI scripts
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#60 ·

  • Ignore GitHub links in linkcheck by default
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

    Julian/mkpkg#59 ·

  • Dammit jinja, fix whitespace (missing/extra newlines) in all the configurations
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/mkpkg#56 ·

  • Build+upload single binaries
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Julian/mkpkg#55 ·

  • Output readthedocs.ymls
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#54 ·

  • Use cibuildwheel so that wheels we build are uploadable to PyPI (i.e. manylinux)
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#53 ·

  • Use push: tags: instead of release: for triggering packaging
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

    Julian/mkpkg#52 ·

  • docs should generate a public API section for semver
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#50 ·

  • Maybe make use of GitHub default files
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#48 ·

  • Move some settings to config
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/mkpkg#47 ·

  • Docs should tell GH to install enchant
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#44 ·

  • DRY up sphinx toxenvs using {envname}
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/mkpkg#43 ·

  • check-manifest
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/mkpkg#40 ·

  • mkpkg --docs should set default_role = "any"
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#36 ·

  • coverage combine py2 + py3
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#34 ·

  • safety check should possibly include full-report
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/mkpkg#33 ·

  • safety check should include requirements files
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#32 ·

  • --support-os {macos,windows,linux}
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/mkpkg#27 ·

  • Review all the sphinx settings
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#26 · 1 comment ·

  • mkpkg --cat foo
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/mkpkg#25 ·

  • Run pydocstyle
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#22 · 1 comment ·

  • Run pypy-nightly in CI
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/mkpkg#21 · 1 comment ·

  • Single modules don't run under style
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/mkpkg#17 ·

  • URL is wrong for --closed
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

    Julian/mkpkg#10 ·

  • mkpkg should take a path, not just a package name
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Julian/mkpkg#2 ·

  • mkpkg should likely set PYTHONWARNINGS=error
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Julian/mkpkg#4 ·

  • mkpkg --diff / mkpkg --update
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    Julian/mkpkg#7 ·

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