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  • Publish and verify the stable 1.0.0 release
    Open
    release

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    guardana/guardana#146 ·

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  • Complete the seven-day candidate period without new defect reports
    Open
    release

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 39/100

    guardana/guardana#145 ·

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  • Record final release gate evidence for the engineering criteria
    Open
    release

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    guardana/guardana#144 ·

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  • Publish recovery runbook proofs on disposable state
    Open
    release

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

    guardana/guardana#143 ·

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  • Publish completion and safe lessons from the security drill
    Open
    release

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

    guardana/guardana#142 ·

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  • Publish a customization proof passing the conformance kit
    Open
    release

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

    guardana/guardana#141 ·

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  • Publish a regression loop proof with a public CI artifact
    Open
    release

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

    guardana/guardana#140 ·

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  • Publish a retrieval pilot proof covering both failure modes
    Open
    release

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

    guardana/guardana#139 ·

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  • Publish a clean-install offline first-run proof
    Open
    release

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

    guardana/guardana#138 ·

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  • Publish reference pack wheel and sdist on PyPI
    Open
    release

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    guardana/guardana#137 ·

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  • Sign release tags and route release commits through pull requests
    Open
    release

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    guardana/guardana#92 ·

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  • Answer OSPS Baseline level 1 controls and pursue Best Practices Silver
    Open
    release

    Difficulty 4/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    guardana/guardana#91 ·

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  • Address prerequisites and publish OpenSSF Scorecard results
    Open
    release

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

    guardana/guardana#90 ·

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  • Exercise documented advanced hooks in the reference pack
    Open
    help wanted

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

    guardana/guardana#89 ·

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  • Prepare and verify 1.0.0rc3 after a second stabilization round
    Open
    release

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

    guardana/guardana#71 ·

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  • Expand release tooling helper tests
    Open
    good first issue

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

    guardana/guardana#57 ·

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  • Test the Ruff on-edit hook
    Open
    good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 91/100

    guardana/guardana#55 ·

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  • Add a Security Insights v2 file
    Possibly taken @CRYPTONIKAV claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    documentation good first issue

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

    guardana/guardana#93 · 1 comment ·

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  • Add a keyboard skip link to generated documentation pages
    Possibly taken @CRYPTONIKAV claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    area:docs good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 82/100

    guardana/guardana#87 · 1 comment ·

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  • Refuse unsupported output formats before command execution
    Possibly taken @sricharanreddycheruku claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    area:cli bug good first issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

    guardana/guardana#72 · 1 comment ·

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  • Test the site generator's page, nav and link refusals
    Possibly taken @KingEmma7 claimed this 3 days ago. Open
    help wanted

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

    guardana/guardana#62 · 1 comment ·

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  • Catch pushes to main written as a full ref or with a leading +
    Possibly taken @HarshRajSinghania claimed this 4 days ago. Open
    help wanted

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

    guardana/guardana#60 ·

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