Simplified Photosynthesis and Evapotranspiration Model: process-based ecosystem model for simulating carbon and water fluxes.

Is PecanProject/sipnet beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, PecanProject/sipnet merged 5 of 11 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 2 days. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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42
Forks
38
Open beginner issues
2
Indexed issues
30
Avg merge
3d 21h
Merged PRs (30d)
10
Dominant language
C
License
BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push
Oct 3, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 14, 2026
Contributing guide
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
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good first issue

How to contribute to PecanProject/sipnet

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's BSD-3-Clause license.
  4. Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • [BUG] readModelParams: Segfault on missing parameter value and unvalidated strtod silently accepts non-numeric strings
    Open

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

    PecanProject/sipnet#435 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Remove unused `Tracker` fields
    May be free again @ANAMASGARD claimed this 10 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    good first issue on hold

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

    PecanProject/sipnet#430 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Allow selecting output columns with --outvars
    May be free again @abhinav-phi claimed this 9 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    good first issue

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

    PecanProject/sipnet#413 · 4 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Organic amendment carbon needs a quality partition; event orgC enters the litter pool as fresh residue
    May be free again @coder-Yash886 claimed this 32 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    PecanProject/sipnet#396 · 5 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Make sure that documentation of sipnet.out header reflects implementation
    May be free again @ANAMASGARD claimed this 152 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    documentation good first issue

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

    PecanProject/sipnet#345 · 8 comments · 1 reaction ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Clarify SIPNET wood-storage bookkeeping around harvest and outputs
    May be free again @Alomir claimed this 196 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    PecanProject/sipnet#328 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Decide what to do with text output
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

    PecanProject/sipnet#323 · 2 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Big output values crowd out other columns
    May be free again @ANAMASGARD claimed this 203 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    good first issue

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

    PecanProject/sipnet#304 · 9 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Add `allow-time-gaps` flag
    Open
    on hold

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    PecanProject/sipnet#289 ·

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  • Add range constraints to model inputs and throw error for out of range inputs
    May be free again @Nitir4 claimed this 32 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    good first issue

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    PecanProject/sipnet#278 · 4 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Finish full N Cycle
    May be free again @Alomir claimed this 367 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    MAGiC

    PecanProject/sipnet#181 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add minimal mineral N cycle
    Open
    MAGiC N cycle

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    PecanProject/sipnet#88 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Event checks ignore every events.in record after the first
    Possibly taken @ANAMASGARD claimed this 10 days ago. Open

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

    PecanProject/sipnet#429 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Events: revamp handling of "big delta" events to post-pool-update
    Possibly taken @Alomir claimed this 12 days ago. Open

    PecanProject/sipnet#423 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Missed event across a year boundary silently blocks later events
    Possibly taken @ANAMASGARD claimed this 12 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 73/100

    PecanProject/sipnet#421 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Checkpoint write failures silently return success
    Possibly taken @ANAMASGARD claimed this 12 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

    PecanProject/sipnet#420 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Remove "clamping" from balance checks
    Possibly taken @priyanshusky0 claimed this 12 days ago. Open

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

    PecanProject/sipnet#416 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Implement H2O balance checking
    Possibly taken @ANAMASGARD claimed this 158 days ago. Open

    PecanProject/sipnet#310 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Add issue template for github issues
    Possibly taken @ayushman1210 claimed this 202 days ago. Open
    good first issue

    PecanProject/sipnet#296 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

  • Revamp russell_4 unit test
    Possibly taken @AritraDey-Dev claimed this 169 days ago. Open
    on hold

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

    PecanProject/sipnet#290 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

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