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Forensics acquisition framework designed to be extensible and secure

Is coinbase/dexter beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to coinbase/dexter to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
126
Forks
18
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
9
Dominant language
Go
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Jun 21, 2019
Latest indexed
Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide
No 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 coinbase/dexter

  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. It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  4. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

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

  • Installing on Replit
    Open

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

    coinbase/dexter#27 ·

  • Investigate pict for OSX collection
    Open

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

    coinbase/dexter#25 ·

  • Each task should upload independently
    Open

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

    coinbase/dexter#17 ·

  • Add osxcollector task
    Open

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

    coinbase/dexter#16 ·

  • Add emergency backup investigator key
    Open

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

    coinbase/dexter#10 ·

  • Add a mechanism to know when all hosts have reported
    Open

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

    coinbase/dexter#6 ·

  • Visibility into private arguments for investigators
    Open

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

    coinbase/dexter#5 ·

  • Add an argument validator function to tasks and facts
    Open

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

    coinbase/dexter#4 ·

  • Improve test coverage
    Open

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

    coinbase/dexter#1 ·

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