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gonids is a library to parse IDS rules, with a focus primarily on Suricata rule compatibility. There is a discussion forum available that you can join on Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gonids/

Is google/gonids beginner-friendly?

The maintainers of google/gonids usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
197
Forks
52
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
7
Avg merge
1d 1h
Merged PRs (30d)
21
Dominant language
Go
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 23, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 16, 2026
Contributing guide
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
Code of conduct
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How to contribute to google/gonids

  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 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

  • OSS-Fuzz issue 577089414
    Open

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

    google/gonids#253 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • semicolons can't be escaped in unquoted values
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 67/100

    google/gonids#252 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • unquoted pcre values fail
    Open

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

    google/gonids#251 · 2 comments ·

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  • metadata with no value is rejected but suricata accepts it
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

    google/gonids#250 ·

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  • unsupported suricata 8 sticky buffers
    Open

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

    google/gonids#249 · 1 comment ·

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  • OSS-Fuzz issue 385865975
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    google/gonids#194 ·

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  • design question: lexer in goroutine?
    May be free again @julienschmidt claimed this 2533 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    google/gonids#19 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

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