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In the last 30 days, dart-lang/pub-dev merged 42 of 53 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Dominant language
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Last GitHub push
Oct 6, 2026
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Sep 15, 2026
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  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's BSD-3-Clause license.
  4. Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • Add `is:built-in-kotlin` to search autocomplete and advanced filters
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9670 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Optimize query
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9652 ·

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  • Tracking the migration of Datastore entities to SQL
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Epic

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9645 ·

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  • Migrate to newer cookiebar
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9565 ·

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  • Expose authenticated GET /api/packages/<package>/publishing endpoint for configuration introspection
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9559 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Use monospace font + a bit more space for changelog headers
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9521 ·

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  • Show dart pub add --dev for development-only packages
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9502 ·

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  • Request to support @youtube
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: bug

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9490 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

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  • Better `installing` tab for `analysis_server_plugin` plugins
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9464 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Failure to run dartdoc and generate API docs
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9366 · 6 comments ·

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  • Pub.dev does not show OIDC details of a package in API
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9352 · 1 comment ·

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  • errors in stderr, logged incorrectly
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: bug

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9332 · 3 comments ·

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  • Improve syntax highlighting
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9323 · 3 comments ·

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  • Remove "Changelog" text from the beginning of the `CHANGELOG.md` (discussion)
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9302 · 1 comment ·

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  • Document supported changelog formats
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9301 ·

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  • Only store node structure in redis cache.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: task

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9300 ·

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  • dependency: is not working properly
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9296 · 2 comments ·

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  • Refactor: merge FakeAppengineEnv with fake_server_entrypoint.dart
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9259 ·

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  • Get rid of old public archive bucket
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: task

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9248 · 7 comments ·

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  • Add a way to reschedule analysis of a package
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9173 ·

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  • Create a test that checks our gvisor version is not too old
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9165 ·

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  • PANA formatting issues incoherent
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: bug

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9145 · 5 comments ·

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  • Confusing log message when package analysis hasn't happened yet.
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9128 · 1 comment · 2 reactions ·

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  • Having 150/160 points is too punitive
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9119 · 4 comments ·

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  • No way to sort or filter recently liked packages
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9118 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Add per-package permissions for publisher members
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9101 · 1 comment ·

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  • Allow manual account deletion
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9090 ·

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  • test_profile import: detect dependency included in analysis_options.yaml
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9064 ·

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  • Some failed package analyses
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: bug

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9036 ·

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  • Generate and display markdown version of documentation
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#9019 ·

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  • Allow disabling publication of a package from cli when automated publishing is enabled
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8992 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Add readme.md markdown text api endpoint
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8983 · 1 comment ·

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  • Add an option for auto-completing package names
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8982 · 3 comments ·

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  • Feature request: Sort my packages by likes, points, or downloads on https://pub.dev/my-packages
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8980 · 1 comment ·

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  • Make <analysis issues> badge less confusing
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8972 ·

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  • Are we holding the stream wrong when timing out?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8970 ·

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  • Merge the changelog into the "versions" tab.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8943 · 1 comment · 3 reactions ·

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  • Consider falling back to non-cached behavior when redis is unavailable
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: quality

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8917 ·

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  • [Feature] Add more search aspect regarding publishers themselves
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8901 · 2 comments ·

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  • Create better integration test(s) for search isolate + search handler + search client.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8891 ·

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  • Display the /my-liked-packages page the same way as other package listing.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8887 ·

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  • Trending Algorithm Vulnerable to Download Inflation
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: bug

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8869 · 4 comments · 6 reactions · 1 assignee ·

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  • Split integrity check into multiple process and run them independently.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8848 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Switching between non-documentation pages in light mode may produce a short flash of non-white background.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: bug

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8842 ·

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  • Code highlight in dark mode + dartdoc pages flashes on page load.
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: bug

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8841 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Investigate color-scheme: light|dark effects
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8838 ·

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  • Merge RequestException and ApiResponseException
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8812 ·

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  • Exported API for `/api/packages/<package>/*`
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8752 ·

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  • Delete orphan moderated package
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: task

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8668 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Cannot make package that is both a flutter plugin, and has a dart-only side also
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Type: enhancement

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

    dart-lang/pub-dev#8656 · 5 comments ·

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