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Is Mathewnd/Astral beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, Mathewnd/Astral merged 8 of 10 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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Forks
36
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
83
Avg merge
1d 23m
Merged PRs (30d)
8
Dominant language
C
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 15, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 17, 2026
No contributing guide
No code of conduct
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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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  • interrupt: do not depend on recursion
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#131 ·

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  • syscalls/fork: implement error cleanup
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#130 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • sock: use slabs for some implementations
    Open
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    enhancement good first issue

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#129 ·

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  • ahci: support 32-bit DMA
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#128 ·

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  • net: proper ip id allocation
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#127 ·

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  • thread: add reaper for kernel threads
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#126 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • hpet: support FSB irq mappings
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#125 ·

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  • ps2: rewrite driver
    Open
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#124 ·

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  • x86-64/mmu: support 5-level paging
    Open
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#123 ·

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  • x86-64/mmu: use 2mb pages on hhdm
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#122 ·

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  • mm: don't send a full flush tlb invalidation on fork
    Open
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    enhancement good first issue

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#121 ·

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  • mm: support shared anonymous memory properly
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#120 ·

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  • mm: optimize mm_destroy_range
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#119 ·

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  • signal: support restartable syscalls
    Open
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    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#118 ·

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  • signal: killing a stopped process crashes the system
    Open
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    bug

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#117 ·

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  • signal: send ipi on signal
    Open
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#116 ·

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  • signal: fix masked stop
    Open
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    bug

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#115 ·

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  • signal: implement siginfo
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#114 ·

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  • proc: use slab ctor interface
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement good first issue

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#113 ·

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  • elf: fail if vnode already open for writing
    Open
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#112 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • sched: slightly randomize load balancing time
    Open
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    enhancement good first issue

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#111 ·

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  • pci: initialize msi mask when applicable
    Open
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    enhancement good first issue

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#110 ·

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  • iovec: add size overflow check
    Open
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    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#109 · 1 comment ·

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  • hda: clean up magic values
    Open
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    enhancement good first issue

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#108 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • audio: input support
    Open
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#107 ·

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  • hda: improve path selection
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#106 ·

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  • hda: possible hang
    Open
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    bug

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#105 ·

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  • hid: support input bit sizes above 64
    Open
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#104 ·

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  • hid: clean up insert_input allocation failure
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#103 ·

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  • hid: support item 0xfe
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#102 ·

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  • hid: support PUSH and POP
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#101 ·

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  • usb: support other configurations
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#100 ·

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  • usb: proper unplug support accross the subsystem
    Open
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#99 ·

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  • interrupt: add api to unregister interrupts
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#98 ·

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  • term: make internal allocator better
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 36/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#97 ·

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  • wlan: free descriptors
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#96 ·

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  • net: better handle netdescs
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#95 ·

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  • wlan: handle hotplug
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#94 ·

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  • wlan: concurrency protection for key and channel setting
    Open
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#93 ·

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  • wlan: make hardware keys take peer into account
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#92 ·

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  • netdev: proper UP/DOWN handling
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#91 ·

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  • net: set flag when packets are truncated
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    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 57/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#90 ·

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  • tcb: don't allocate buffers for listening sockets
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#89 ·

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  • tcp: buffer segments for a short period of time instead of instantly sending
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    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 47/100

    Mathewnd/Astral#88 ·

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  • tcp: handle out-of-band urgent packets
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#87 ·

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  • tcp: support receiving data in early states
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#86 ·

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  • tcp: split code into smaller files
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#85 ·

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  • tcp: do not treat CLOSEWAIT as a full hang up.
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#84 ·

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  • netdev: proper hotplug support
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#83 ·

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  • netdev: return more data in GET_INFO ioctl
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    Mathewnd/Astral#82 ·

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