genealogix/glx

An open standard for collaborative genealogy and family history

Stars: 11
Forks: 2
Open beginner issues: 49
Indexed issues: 211
Avg merge: 2d 15h
Merged PRs (30d): 60

Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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204 open issues indexed

ci: validate-examples reports a failure when its own concurrency group cancelled the run Open

github_actions tooling

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

genealogix/glx#1293 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026
GEDCOM export drops SOUR for event-subject assertions, silently losing the evidence chain for BIRT/DEAT/MARR Open

go-glx import-export

genealogix/glx#1269 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 18, 2026
glx coverage: an uncited event counts as a found vital record, inflating the coverage score Open

cli

genealogix/glx#1267 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Go 1.27 bump exposes ~100 new modernize findings hidden by only-new-issues Open

go needs-triage tooling

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

genealogix/glx#1261 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
go-glx/gedcom_test_helpers.go ships in the library and performs filesystem I/O Open

go-glx needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

genealogix/glx#1260 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Decide the safe-write model: confirm before flattening a user's layout, or rewrite in place like glx rename Open

needs-triage

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

genealogix/glx#1247 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
glx import emits relationships with one participant, which glx validate then rejects (minItems: 2) Open

needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

genealogix/glx#1243 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
GEDCOM import writes gedcom_extensions, but no property vocabulary defines it — every real-world import validates with warnings Open

needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

genealogix/glx#1242 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Duplicate entity ID error does not name the colliding files Open

needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

genealogix/glx#1232 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
fix: glx evidence ignores assertion dates on temporal properties Open

cli

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

genealogix/glx#1230 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
fix: glx proof conflict detection is date-blind and diverges from glx analyze Open

cli

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

genealogix/glx#1229 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
fix: analyze conflict check flags contiguous periods sharing a boundary year Open

cli

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

genealogix/glx#1228 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Assertion participant properties always validated against event_properties, ignoring relationship subjects Open

needs-triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

genealogix/glx#1225 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Validator never checks assertion `property` against property vocabularies, despite the spec saying it does Open

needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

genealogix/glx#1224 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
ci: Add a pin-currency gate for the hand-managed GoReleaser tool version Open

needs-triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

genealogix/glx#1215 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
`glx analyze` conflict check ignores assertion dates, so temporal properties are always flagged Open

cli

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 75/100

genealogix/glx#1213 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
glx analyze: vital_record sources cited on event-subject assertions are not counted Open

cli

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

genealogix/glx#1211 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Terminal sanitization: cover runners not yet on IOStreams Open

cli needs-triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

genealogix/glx#1208 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
`glx validate` with directory args fails type and cross-reference validation Open

cli

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

genealogix/glx#1206 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 4, 2026
test: Backfill end-to-end CLI coverage for every command Open

cli

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

genealogix/glx#1205 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
fix: merge-persons removes resolved possibly_same_person relationship Open

cli

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

genealogix/glx#1201 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Git Workflow Guide: checksum step verifies integrity, not authenticity — add cosign verify-blob Open

tooling

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

genealogix/glx#1173 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Media import: original_filename can name a file that never existed when copyMediaFile's raw-path candidate wins Open

cli go-glx import-export

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

genealogix/glx#1153 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Media import: percent-encoded GEDCOM 7 FILE refs keep the encoded form as on-disk filename and uri Open

go-glx import-export

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

genealogix/glx#1152 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
GEDCOM export drops media original_filename, so a round-trip replaces it with the archive-canonical name Open

go go-glx import-export

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

genealogix/glx#1149 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026
//nolint:gosec annotations are ignored by the standalone gosec binary used in CI and make gosec Open

go tooling

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

genealogix/glx#1147 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Media import: full source path provenance for collided filenames (source_path property?) Open

go-glx import-export

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

genealogix/glx#1144 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
glx init should create .gitkeep files so the scaffold survives a clone Open

cli good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

genealogix/glx#1136 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 27, 2026
GEDCOM import: embedded citations create one synthetic source per occurrence — no dedup floods archives with identical placeholder sources Open

go-glx import-export

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

genealogix/glx#1120 · Opened Jul 12, 2026
website: literal {{ }} in rendered markdown (inline code included) breaks the VitePress build with an opaque Vue error Open

ui

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

genealogix/glx#1100 · Opened Jun 11, 2026
licensing: scripts/ and public/ lack REUSE coverage; dep5 is deprecated; reuse lint not in CI Open

tooling

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

genealogix/glx#1081 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 10, 2026
generate-social-preview.py: vendor OFL font, pin deps, render from SVG, and add CI drift check for reproducible renders Open

tooling

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

genealogix/glx#1080 · Opened Jun 10, 2026
social-preview.png: text contrast falls below WCAG 3:1 large-text minimum at the gradient's pink end Open

tooling

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

genealogix/glx#1079 · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Discussion: mirror Area into a native field and add suggestion-only AI triage over the post-#948 residual Open

tooling

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

genealogix/glx#1068 · Opened Jun 9, 2026
ci: scheduled taxonomy-drift tripwire — alert when any one Area exceeds ~30% of open issues Open

github_actions tooling

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

genealogix/glx#1067 · Opened Jun 9, 2026
issue intake: make the Area dropdown optional with an abstain option + a per-area legend (stop laundering a forced guess into an authoritative label) Open

tooling

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

genealogix/glx#1066 · Opened Jun 9, 2026
Discussion: replace the issue-templates-drift differ with a generator that injects issue-areas.yml into each template (--check mode, like make docs-cli) Open

github_actions tooling

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

genealogix/glx#1065 · Opened Jun 9, 2026
issue-templates-drift: drift check guards id:area but the labeler keys on the rendered "### Area" heading — also assert the dropdown label is 'Area' Open

github_actions tooling

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

genealogix/glx#1064 · Opened Jun 9, 2026
issue-labeler: needs-triage is additive-only and never cleared — 93% of needs-triage labels are false positives Open

github_actions tooling

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

genealogix/glx#1063 · Opened Jun 9, 2026
Redesign the Area axis to a pure product-surface set: cli, spec, go-glx, import-export, docs, website, infra, security Open

tooling

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

genealogix/glx#1062 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 9, 2026
ci/tooling: .golangci-lint-version pin has no automated update path (invisible to every Dependabot ecosystem) Open

github_actions tooling

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

genealogix/glx#1061 · Opened Jun 8, 2026
ci: Add automated DCO sign-off status check Open

tooling

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

genealogix/glx#1057 · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Discussion: add a root AGENTS.md so non-Claude agents see the build/commit/security guardrails Open

tooling

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

genealogix/glx#1052 · Opened Jun 8, 2026
validate-spec.yml: migrate Codecov upload to tokenless OIDC (use_oidc + job-scoped id-token: write) Open

github_actions tooling

Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 68/100

genealogix/glx#1044 · Opened Jun 8, 2026
validate-spec.yml: Go build-cache fragments across setup-go jobs (first-writer-wins starves test-conformance) Open

github_actions tooling

genealogix/glx#1040 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 8, 2026
validate-spec.yml: sparse-checkout the per-example matrix jobs (full ~239 MB checkout to read a 299 KB dir) Open

github_actions tooling

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

genealogix/glx#1039 · Opened Jun 8, 2026
security: evaluate CodeQL-go Advanced Setup with security-extended (keep gosec complementary) Open

github_actions tooling

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

genealogix/glx#1031 · Opened Jun 8, 2026
security.yml: reconsider npm audit moderate hard-fail on website's dev-only tree (+ optional Code Scanning parity) Open

github_actions tooling

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

genealogix/glx#1030 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Register at bestpractices.dev for the OpenSSF Best Practices badge (Scorecard CII-Best-Practices = 0) Open

tooling

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

genealogix/glx#1023 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 7, 2026
Epic: Consolidate & modernize the `.claude/commands/check-*` suite (accuracy, shared output contract, skills migration) Open

tooling

genealogix/glx#1016 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 5, 2026

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