ietf-tools/idnits

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Library / CLI to inspect Internet-Draft documents for a variety of conditions to conform with IETF policies.

Is ietf-tools/idnits beginner-friendly?

The maintainers of ietf-tools/idnits 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
20
Forks
30
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
93
Avg merge
7h 34m
Merged PRs (30d)
113
Dominant language
JavaScript
License
BSD-3-Clause
Last GitHub push
Oct 30, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide
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  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 BSD-3-Clause license.
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  • SVG sizing checks
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    • Is something wrong?
    idnits3

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

    ietf-tools/idnits#233 ·

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  • Add line numbers (or at least section) for all warnings/errors
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    idnits3

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

    ietf-tools/idnits#228 ·

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  • better identify problematic characters
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    idnits3

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

    ietf-tools/idnits#186 ·

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  • Check that a draft is not republishing the same YANG modules
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    under_review

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

    ietf-tools/idnits#164 · 1 comment ·

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  • Use .cache
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    accepted idnits2

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

    ietf-tools/idnits#28 ·

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  • Inexsitent obsolete in abstract
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    idnits2

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

    ietf-tools/idnits#26 ·

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  • Missing References
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    accepted bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    ietf-tools/idnits#23 · 2 comments ·

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  • Attempt to download rfcxxxx state ... error
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    idnits2

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

    ietf-tools/idnits#22 · 6 comments ·

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  • Stop accepting older variant of boilerplate
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ietf-tools/idnits#12 ·

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  • report contains old URLs
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    accepted bug idnits2

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

    ietf-tools/idnits#11 · 1 comment ·

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  • IANA considerations section
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    accepted bug idnits2

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

    ietf-tools/idnits#10 · 2 comments ·

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  • Put timeout and retry bounds on wget inside the script
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    idnits2

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

    ietf-tools/idnits#4 ·

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