cisagov/development-guide
A set of guidelines and best practices for an awesome engineering team
Is cisagov/development-guide beginner-friendly?
We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to cisagov/development-guide to say how often they are merged. 4 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 282
- Forks
- 71
- Open beginner issues
- 4
- Indexed issues
- 24
- Dominant language
- Python
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Last GitHub push
- Aug 5, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 15, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- No code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- No beginner labels indexed
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
How to contribute to cisagov/development-guide
- Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's CC0-1.0 license.
- 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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improvement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
cisagov/development-guide#126 · 1 comment ·
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documentation
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
cisagov/development-guide#125 ·
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improvement
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
cisagov/development-guide#112 · 1 reaction ·
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documentation improvement
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100
cisagov/development-guide#100 ·
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documentation improvement
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100
cisagov/development-guide#99 ·
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
cisagov/development-guide#92 ·
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bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100
cisagov/development-guide#90 · 1 reaction ·
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documentation improvement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
cisagov/development-guide#81 · 1 comment ·
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documentation improvement
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100
cisagov/development-guide#75 ·
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documentation improvement need info
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
cisagov/development-guide#63 ·
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bug documentation
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100
cisagov/development-guide#59 · 1 reaction ·
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documentation
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100
cisagov/development-guide#58 · 1 reaction ·
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documentation improvement
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100
cisagov/development-guide#51 · 1 reaction ·
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documentation improvement
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
cisagov/development-guide#50 · 1 reaction ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
cisagov/development-guide#49 · 1 comment ·
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Add dev setup info for Windows/WSLMay be free again @mcdonnnj claimed this 2014 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendocumentation
cisagov/development-guide#48 · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
cisagov/development-guide#40 · 1 comment ·
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Decide guide policy for PRs that need to waitMay be free again @hillaryj claimed this 2147 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openquestion
cisagov/development-guide#37 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·
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documentation
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
cisagov/development-guide#36 ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100
cisagov/development-guide#33 · 3 comments · 4 reactions ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
cisagov/development-guide#26 · 4 comments · 2 reactions ·
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
cisagov/development-guide#19 ·
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Add steps for using an alternative to DockerPossibly taken @michaelsaki claimed this 969 days ago. Opendocumentation improvement
cisagov/development-guide#95 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·
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Update instructions for project setupPossibly taken @dv4harr10 claimed this 957 days ago. Opendocumentation improvement
cisagov/development-guide#88 · 1 assignee ·