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PaSh: Light-touch Data-Parallel Shell Processing

Is binpash/pash beginner-friendly?

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Stars
602
Forks
53
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
29
Avg merge
2d 23h
Merged PRs (30d)
1
Dominant language
Shell
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Sep 28, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 14, 2026
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted

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  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
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  • Change pa.sh to be a python script for better code maintenance
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    binpash/pash#765 ·

  • -bash flag failures in KOALA from the future branch
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    binpash/pash#756 ·

  • missing annotations for these commands using KOALA_PASH
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    binpash/pash#754 ·

  • Explore the limits of --bash flag in PaSh
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue!

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

    binpash/pash#752 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • Fix python breakpoints in PaSh server
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    binpash/pash#749 · 1 reaction ·

  • Fix failing tests in bash mode
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    binpash/pash#748 · 2 comments ·

  • Update docker containers
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    binpash/pash#747 ·

  • Quoted commands aren’t recognized as being parallelizable
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    binpash/pash#741 · 4 comments ·

  • Understanding and reducing compilation overheads
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    binpash/pash#733 ·

  • Port `pipelines-limit` flag from dspash-future branch
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue!

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

    binpash/pash#732 · 2 comments ·

  • Add instructions on how to install a local version of the annotations repo
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue!

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    binpash/pash#730 · 1 comment ·

  • Load balancing debugging info
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    binpash/pash#728 ·

  • Adding a warning/info message when nothing was parallelized successfully
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue!

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

    binpash/pash#725 · 4 comments ·

  • Missing External Dependency - aclocal
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    binpash/pash#710 ·

  • Parallelize the call to the compiler with the execution of the command
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement low-priority

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

    binpash/pash#641 ·

  • Fix links in benchmark descriptions
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    cleanup low-priority

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

    binpash/pash#635 ·

  • Add support for more distros in Github Actions CI
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    help wanted

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

    binpash/pash#620 ·

  • Evaluation timing result consistency
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    binpash/pash#557 ·

  • Avoiding compilation overhead in fragments where compilation is doomed to fail
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement good first issue!

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

    binpash/pash#549 ·

  • Logging commit (and/or release) id when in debug mode
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue!

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    binpash/pash#548 · 1 comment ·

  • The sigpipe signals we issue cause early termination in distributed exec mode.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    binpash/pash#539 · 1 reaction ·

  • Fix evaluation README.md links
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    help wanted

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

    binpash/pash#507 ·

  • Logging/Monitoring PaSh spawned processes
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    binpash/pash#500 · 2 comments ·

  • Inline annotations
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue!

    binpash/pash#453 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Create expected canonical structure per target system
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    binpash/pash#276 · 1 comment ·

  • Round split work balancing (not just round-robin)
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    binpash/pash#177 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • PaSh overly simplifies scheduling constraints on scripts (waits for a all commands to finish instead of one)
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    binpash/pash#77 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Suboptimal parallelism in minimal_grep_stdin
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    binpash/pash#72 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Superoptimization
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    binpash/pash#65 · 1 comment · 2 assignees ·

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