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We have not seen enough recent pull requests from first-time contributors to cake-build/website to say how often they are merged. 9 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars
52
Forks
256
Open beginner issues
9
Indexed issues
93
Avg merge
4h 40m
Merged PRs (30d)
5
Dominant language
HTML
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 14, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted

How to contribute to cake-build/website

  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.
  3. Pick one of the 9 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

  • Add Cake.DotNetOutdated.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

    cake-build/website#3488 · 1 comment ·

  • Add Cake.SimpleGitVer.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

    cake-build/website#3328 ·

  • Add Cake.OpenCppCoverage.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 75/100

    cake-build/website#3225 ·

  • Add Cake.GoogleTest.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

    cake-build/website#3221 ·

  • Add Cake.GitHooks.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 65/100

    cake-build/website#3135 ·

  • Delete Cake.DotNetTool.Module.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 65/100

    cake-build/website#3127 · 3 comments ·

  • Add Cake.Podman.yml
    Open

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

    cake-build/website#3104 ·

  • Definition of trivial contributions
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 52/100

    cake-build/website#2920 · 1 comment ·

  • Atom feed doesn't handle HTML in content properly
    Open
    bug

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

    cake-build/website#2778 · 3 comments ·

  • "Running Task For Collections" page does not mention Cake Frosting
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

    cake-build/website#2760 · 1 comment ·

  • Add Cake.DependencyTrack.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

    cake-build/website#2748 ·

  • Add Cake.AWS.CloudFormation.yml
    Open

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

    cake-build/website#2740 · 4 comments ·

  • Document how to run tools
    Open
    documentation up-for-grabs

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    cake-build/website#2516 · 4 comments ·

  • Update docs: Frosting now supports configuration
    Open
    up-for-grabs

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

    cake-build/website#2492 · 1 reaction ·

  • Add Cake.XCodeWithTesting.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

    cake-build/website#2488 ·

  • UI/UX improvement in the homepage
    Open
    design

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

    cake-build/website#2469 · 6 comments ·

  • Add documentation for caching of scripts
    Open
    documentation help wanted

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

    cake-build/website#2431 · 4 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Add Cake.ExtractLicenses.yml
    Open

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

    cake-build/website#2402 ·

  • Add Cake.Git.Clog.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 50/100

    cake-build/website#2376 ·

  • Add Cake.UG.IIS.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

    cake-build/website#2374 ·

  • Add Cake.Badge.yml
    Open

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

    cake-build/website#2337 ·

  • Remove documentation for Azure DevOps Build Task Extension
    Open
    documentation

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

    cake-build/website#2293 · 1 comment ·

  • Update requirements for Cake Bakery to .NET 6
    Open
    documentation

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

    cake-build/website#2291 ·

  • Add guidelines to addin best practices for best docs integration
    Open
    documentation

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

    cake-build/website#2242 · 1 comment ·

  • Add Cake.GitHubReleases.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 48/100

    cake-build/website#2236 ·

  • Reduce the number of CDNs for scripts, css, and images
    Open
    enhancement

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

    cake-build/website#2233 ·

  • Update Cake.Buns.ReportPortal.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

    cake-build/website#1923 ·

  • Overwrite Description and/or Categories for some of the newly analyzed addins
    Open

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

    cake-build/website#1892 · 1 reaction ·

  • Add note that Spectre.Console version provided by Cake should be used
    Open
    documentation help wanted up-for-grabs

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

    cake-build/website#1767 · 1 comment ·

  • Document NuGet version range support
    Open
    documentation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    cake-build/website#1766 ·

  • Update NuGet support redirect to be relative
    May be free again @sahilm-10 claimed this 1466 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    documentation

    cake-build/website#1720 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Document architecture of Cake
    Open
    documentation

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

    cake-build/website#1699 ·

  • Add Cake.IIS.Core.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

    cake-build/website#1649 ·

  • Module detail page should show instructions how to register in Frosting
    Open
    enhancement help wanted up-for-grabs

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

    cake-build/website#1524 · 1 comment ·

  • Document SETTINGS_NOMONOCOERSION configuration
    Open
    documentation

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

    cake-build/website#1517 ·

  • Add recipe packages to extensions page
    Open
    enhancement

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

    cake-build/website#1511 ·

  • Add Cake.Args.yml
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

    cake-build/website#1497 ·

  • Extension pages should be able to list addins even without addin category
    Open
    bug help wanted up-for-grabs

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

    cake-build/website#1496 · 1 comment ·

  • Document latest stable version instead of pre-release
    Open
    enhancement

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

    cake-build/website#1465 ·

  • Add troubleshooting information for tools (e.g. MsBuild)
    Open
    documentation

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

    cake-build/website#1458 ·

  • Show supported runners on extension detail page
    Open
    enhancement

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

    cake-build/website#1403 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • User interface to build a custom bootstrapper for Cake
    Open
    enhancement help wanted up-for-grabs

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

    cake-build/website#1297 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • Add documentation how to extend Frosting internals
    Open
    documentation

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

    cake-build/website#1283 ·

  • Add a rating to extensions based on how well they follow best-practices
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    cake-build/website#1280 · 1 comment ·

  • "In the news" section outdated
    Open
    documentation

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

    cake-build/website#1269 · 2 comments ·

  • Reduce number of reference categories
    Open
    documentation

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

    cake-build/website#1267 · 7 comments ·

  • Add best-practices for documenting extensions
    Open
    documentation

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

    cake-build/website#1241 · 1 comment ·

  • Update tasks documentation for Frosting
    Open
    documentation

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    cake-build/website#1236 ·

  • Add documentation for parallel tasks
    Open
    documentation

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

    cake-build/website#1231 · 1 comment · 3 reactions ·

  • Add FAQ entry explaining pro/cons between script runners and Frosting
    Open
    documentation

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

    cake-build/website#1230 ·

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