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The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C objects.

Is gnustep/libs-base beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, gnustep/libs-base merged 45 of 46 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 2 days. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
997
Forks
305
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
35
Avg merge
1d 20h
Merged PRs (30d)
56
Dominant language
Objective-C
License
GPL-2.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 8, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 8, 2026
No contributing guide
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted

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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. Your contributions will be published under the project's GPL-2.0 license.
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  • Optimise -performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: and -performSelector:withObject:afterDelay:inModes:
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    gnustep/libs-base#860 ·

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  • Bring Base testing in line with libobjc2
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    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 45/100

    gnustep/libs-base#850 · 5 comments ·

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  • Allow text property lists to be utf8 and generally improve them.
    Open
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    enhancement

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

    gnustep/libs-base#842 ·

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  • 1.32 release?
    Open
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    gnustep/libs-base#784 · 3 comments ·

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  • test status - gcc
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    gnustep/libs-base#773 · 12 comments · 2 assignees ·

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  • test status - libobjc2 runtime
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    gnustep/libs-base#772 ·

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  • NSPredicate also lacks NSSecureCoding and -allowEvaluation
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    gnustep/libs-base#766 · 4 comments ·

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  • NSProxy failure on Solaris
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    gnustep/libs-base#559 · 4 comments ·

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  • OpenBSD Intel32bit native exception failure
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

    gnustep/libs-base#496 · 3 comments ·

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  • OpenBSD i386 test failures
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

    gnustep/libs-base#463 · 4 comments ·

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  • Speed-Up CI
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    enhancement

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

    gnustep/libs-base#448 · 2 comments ·

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  • libdispatch threads should call GSUnregisterCurrentThread() on exit
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    gnustep/libs-base#428 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • [autogsdoc] should be refactored to support multiple output formats
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement feature request

    gnustep/libs-base#425 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Applying clang-format to the entire repository?
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    gnustep/libs-base#409 · 16 comments ·

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  • dispatch_data_t <=> NSData toll-free bridging does not work
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    gnustep/libs-base#406 · 2 comments ·

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  • Yum installation gnustep for objective-c
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    documentation packaging

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    gnustep/libs-base#282 · 2 comments ·

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  • GSSocketStream win32 Assertion
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    bug windows

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

    gnustep/libs-base#266 · 3 comments ·

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  • Please add base/Resources/Languages file for various languages in Switzerland locale
    Open
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    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

    gnustep/libs-base#28 · 2 comments ·

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  • Rewrite runloop event polling for simplification/efficiency, implement common modes for event
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    gnustep/libs-base#865 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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