ietf-tools/red
RFC Editor Website (RED)
Is ietf-tools/red beginner-friendly?
We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to ietf-tools/red to say how often they are merged. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 18
- Forks
- 21
- Open beginner issues
- 2
- Indexed issues
- 88
- Avg merge
- 11h 11m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 6
- Dominant language
- HTML
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Last GitHub push
- Nov 1, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 20, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- Code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- No beginner labels indexed
How to contribute to ietf-tools/red
- Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
- The project ships a dev container: open it in Codespaces to get a working environment in your browser.
- Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
- Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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awaiting-triage rfc-display
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100
ietf-tools/red#581 ·
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awaiting-triage site-content
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100
ietf-tools/red#580 ·
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awaiting-triage rfc-display
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
ietf-tools/red#578 ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
ietf-tools/red#577 ·
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awaiting-triage
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100
ietf-tools/red#574 · 1 comment ·
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Site content SEOOpensite-content
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100
ietf-tools/red#556 · 2 comments ·
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Missing humour iconMay be free again @holloway claimed this 34 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openrfc-display user-interface
ietf-tools/red#540 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·
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be consistent about new > old listing of RFCsMay be free again @holloway claimed this 34 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openawaiting-feedback design tweak
ietf-tools/red#539 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·
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change wording in "create new set" modalMay be free again @holloway claimed this 35 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opentext change UI
ietf-tools/red#527 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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divide subscriptions and sets more clearly in account pageMay be free again @holloway claimed this 35 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign tweak
ietf-tools/red#522 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Some RFCs doesn't reflect reef related dataMay be free again @holloway claimed this 41 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openratings
ietf-tools/red#514 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Use NicknameMay be free again @holloway claimed this 41 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openaccount-sys
ietf-tools/red#508 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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Spacing for terms in definition lists is now too wide in info routeMay be free again @holloway claimed this 54 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openrfc-display
ietf-tools/red#502 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·
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rfc-display
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
ietf-tools/red#495 · 1 comment ·
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rfc-display
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100
ietf-tools/red#491 ·
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remove "Research group: Individual submission" for IRTF documentsMay be free again @holloway claimed this 90 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openrfc-display
ietf-tools/red#460 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·
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RFCs with Historic Status are not well markedMay be free again @holloway claimed this 90 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openawaiting-feedback design tweak rfc-display
ietf-tools/red#451 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·
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rfc-display
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100
ietf-tools/red#450 · 3 comments ·
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rfc-display
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100
ietf-tools/red#441 · 6 comments ·
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awaiting-feedback rfc-display
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100
ietf-tools/red#440 · 3 comments ·
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Soften BCP14 languageMay be free again @holloway claimed this 125 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign tweak rfc-display
ietf-tools/red#435 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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match cases for labels on search pageMay be free again @holloway claimed this 133 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opensearch text change UI
ietf-tools/red#427 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·
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design tweak rfc-display
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100
ietf-tools/red#425 · 1 comment ·
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Make RFC formats easier to findMay be free again @JayDaley claimed this 132 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign tweak rfc-display
ietf-tools/red#419 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·
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rfc-display
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
ietf-tools/red#418 · 2 comments ·
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Copy buttons on sourcecode/figure mess with layoutMay be free again @holloway claimed this 141 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openrfc-display
ietf-tools/red#415 · 16 comments · 1 assignee ·
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RFC PDF page alt text bugsMay be free again @holloway claimed this 145 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openrfc-display site-content
ietf-tools/red#407 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Nit: line breaks between text and comma after a linkMay be free again @holloway claimed this 145 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opensite-content
ietf-tools/red#385 · 1 assignee ·
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JavaScript bundle optimisationsMay be free again @holloway claimed this 161 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openuser-interface
ietf-tools/red#383 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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Pilcrow positioning for sourcecode blocksMay be free again @holloway claimed this 158 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openrfc-display
ietf-tools/red#373 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Text widthMay be free again @holloway claimed this 148 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openrfc-display
ietf-tools/red#370 · 8 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Outbound links are inconsistentMay be free again @holloway claimed this 158 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign tweak
ietf-tools/red#369 · 8 comments · 1 assignee ·
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RFC Notecards on search page strip punctuation and whitespaceMay be free again @jennifer-richards claimed this 164 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openuser-interface
ietf-tools/red#367 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·
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IETF report archiveMay be free again @ajeanmahoney claimed this 164 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opensite-content
ietf-tools/red#361 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Fix handling of "organization as author" in TXT refsMay be free again @holloway claimed this 167 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openrfc-display
ietf-tools/red#354 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Update links to Trust to IPMCMay be free again @ajeanmahoney claimed this 164 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opensite-content
ietf-tools/red#298 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Author name differences for names with non-latin charactersMay be free again @holloway claimed this 164 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openrfc-display
ietf-tools/red#225 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Reduce height of footer and content shown (for discussion)Possibly taken @holloway claimed this today. Openawaiting-triage user-interface
ietf-tools/red#579 · 1 assignee ·
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Update survey action buttons: Replace "Complete" with "Submit" and add "Cancel" buttonPossibly taken @holloway claimed this 7 days ago. Openuser-interface
ietf-tools/red#571 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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No fancy 404 page 😱Possibly taken @NGPixel claimed this 6 days ago. Openuser-interface
ietf-tools/red#568 · 2 assignees ·
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Web notification text is hard to parsePossibly taken @holloway claimed this 13 days ago. Openawaiting-feedback user-interface
ietf-tools/red#567 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·
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some section links to other RFCs don't quite work right (both production and staging)Possibly taken @holloway claimed this 20 days ago. Openrfc-display
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100
ietf-tools/red#536 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·