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Is galaxyproject/iwc beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, galaxyproject/iwc merged 53 of 92 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 3 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Forks
98
Open beginner issues
3
Indexed issues
65
Avg merge
2d 14h
Merged PRs (30d)
62
Dominant language
Vue
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Last GitHub push
Oct 28, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 16, 2026
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  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. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  3. Pick one of the 3 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • CI: `planemo workflow_lint` crashes with gxformat2 0.29.0 ('WorkflowLintContext' object has no attribute 'child')
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#1500 ·

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  • Add RT/RI prediction workflows from RCI-M project
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    galaxyproject/iwc#1382 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Genome Annotation in MAGs workflows: Change default values for some Bakta parameters
    Open
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#1324 · 10 comments ·

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  • Stale expected VCFs: generic-variant-calling-wgs-pe and sars-cov-2-pe-illumina-wgs failing all weeklies on cosmetic lofreq drift
    Open
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#1299 ·

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  • Ping maintainers
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#1262 · 3 comments ·

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  • Make invocations public and post to PR when testing against instances
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#1261 · 1 comment ·

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  • Replace FastQC by falco
    Open
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#1260 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Test release 26.1
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#1245 · 1 comment ·

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  • RNAseq PE: coverage calculation step fails workflow when no reads are aligned
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#1228 · 1 comment ·

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  • Functional annotation of sequences - needs parameter update
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#1186 · 1 comment ·

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  • Loose end in workflow diagrams
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#1181 · 1 comment ·

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  • Connection Validation Failures
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#1163 ·

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  • New Workflow: Multiple Genome Alignment Pipeline Using Mash, FastGA/KegAlign, and Multiz
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    galaxyproject/iwc#1190 · 3 comments · 2 assignees ·

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  • Put the IWC logo in the global galaxyproject branding page
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#1154 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Tags not propagating to workflowhub
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#1139 · 1 comment ·

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  • Workflow imports not importing workflow readmes?
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    galaxyproject/iwc#1119 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Provide template repo
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#1096 ·

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  • Help in creating a new workflow
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#1044 · 2 comments ·

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  • Allow to propargate update of subworkflows to the workflow using this subworkflow
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#1037 · 1 comment ·

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  • "Try with example data" from iwc failures due to metadata issues
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#1020 · 1 comment ·

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  • zenodo community for iwc
    Open
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#997 ·

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  • More explanation needed for website Run with example data feature
    Open
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#989 · 1 comment ·

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  • Link to WorkflowHub from workflow page
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#974 · 1 comment ·

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  • Failure in bumping of tool in MAGs workflows
    Open
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#973 · 4 comments ·

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  • Allow CI test to run on usegalaxy.org
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    galaxyproject/iwc#944 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Allow picking non-latest versions of workflow in `Run this workflow`
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#928 ·

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  • Test release 25.0
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 20/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#866 · 1 comment ·

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  • Accessibility & SEO score improvements
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    galaxyproject/iwc#805 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • (low) IWC masthead background design
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    galaxyproject/iwc#766 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add a note about memory consumption
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#666 ·

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  • Add the IWC logos to https://preview.galaxyproject.org/images/galaxy-logos/
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#663 ·

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  • Team hackathon goals 2024
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#629 · 7 comments ·

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  • Dockstore import does not work if Galaxy URL has a trailing slash
    Open
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#618 ·

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  • Update the autoupdate part
    Open
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#592 ·

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  • TreeValGal status and issues
    Open
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#553 · 2 comments ·

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  • Autoupdate errors
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#543 · 46 comments ·

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  • Autoupdate: also mention tools that have not been updated in PR
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#434 · 4 comments ·

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  • Cancel concurrent CI workflows
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#420 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Workflow to concatenate fastqs from different lanes
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    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#311 · 3 comments ·

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  • Having a doi for each version of each workflow
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#287 · 6 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • dockstore uses readme.md only if annotation is not filled
    Open
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#286 · 1 comment ·

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  • CI should check which tools are not installed on usegalaxy.*
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#285 ·

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  • More automation for usegalaxy.* import
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#281 · 2 comments ·

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  • Link README in dockstore?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#246 ·

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  • Encourage PRs even if tests are not written yet
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#216 · 1 comment ·

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  • Provide command to install tools for workflows
    Open
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    galaxyproject/iwc#215 ·

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  • Maintenance of workflows
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#175 ·

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  • Workflow diagrams: export high-quality images
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#113 ·

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  • Workflow tutorials to write
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#78 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·

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  • Add a contributing document like IUC
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    galaxyproject/iwc#60 · 1 comment ·

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