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Documentation for the balenaCloud platform.

Is balena-io/docs beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to balena-io/docs to say how often they are merged. 4 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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78
Forks
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Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
21
Avg merge
3m
Merged PRs (30d)
1
Dominant language
JavaScript
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Sep 24, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
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How to contribute to balena-io/docs

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-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.

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

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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

    balena-io/docs#3631 ·

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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    balena-io/docs#3630 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3629 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3628 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3626 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3625 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3624 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3623 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3622 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3620 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3616 ·

  • Link Checker Report
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    balena-io/docs#3615 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3614 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3613 ·

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

    balena-io/docs#3612 ·

  • Docs for NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Devkit
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

    balena-io/docs#3442 ·

  • Highlight that self-service supervisor upgrades are not supported on balenaOS ESR
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    balena-io/docs#3409 ·

  • Dependency Dashboard
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    balena-io/docs#3282 ·

  • Document how to use semver for a release using balena push workflow
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    balena-io/docs#2596 · 4 comments ·

  • Add typing information to API resources
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    balena-io/docs#1848 · 1 comment ·

  • Document lack of $metadata API endpoint
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    balena-io/docs#533 · 5 comments · 1 reaction ·

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