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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.

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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
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How to contribute to ietf-tools/red

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. The project ships a dev container: open it in Codespaces to get a working environment in your browser.
  3. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  4. 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

  • stream messaging missing from info page
    Open
    awaiting-triage rfc-display

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

    ietf-tools/red#581 ·

  • interface for moderating sets
    Open
    awaiting-triage site-content

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

    ietf-tools/red#580 ·

  • Include link to datatracker on RFC page directly
    Open
    awaiting-triage rfc-display

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    ietf-tools/red#578 ·

  • Intermittent RFC 8621 canonical info URL self-redirects repeatedly with 301
    Open

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

    ietf-tools/red#577 ·

  • PDFs of pre-RFCXMLv3 RFCs are not available
    Open
    awaiting-triage

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

    ietf-tools/red#574 · 1 comment ·

  • Site content SEO
    Open
    site-content

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    ietf-tools/red#556 · 2 comments ·

  • Missing humour icon
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 34 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    rfc-display user-interface

    ietf-tools/red#540 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • be consistent about new > old listing of RFCs
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 34 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    awaiting-feedback design tweak

    ietf-tools/red#539 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • change wording in "create new set" modal
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 35 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    text change UI

    ietf-tools/red#527 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • divide subscriptions and sets more clearly in account page
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 35 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    design tweak

    ietf-tools/red#522 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Some RFCs doesn't reflect reef related data
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 41 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    ratings

    ietf-tools/red#514 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Use Nickname
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 41 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    account-sys

    ietf-tools/red#508 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Spacing for terms in definition lists is now too wide in info route
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 54 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    rfc-display

    ietf-tools/red#502 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Info format does not display non-ASCII author names
    Open
    rfc-display

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

    ietf-tools/red#495 · 1 comment ·

  • Inconsistency in RFC display
    Open
    rfc-display

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

    ietf-tools/red#491 ·

  • remove "Research group: Individual submission" for IRTF documents
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 90 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    rfc-display

    ietf-tools/red#460 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • RFCs with Historic Status are not well marked
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 90 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    awaiting-feedback design tweak rfc-display

    ietf-tools/red#451 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Validate/update ResearchGroup links
    Open
    rfc-display

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

    ietf-tools/red#450 · 3 comments ·

  • Non-RFC Citation Link Jumps
    Open
    rfc-display

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    ietf-tools/red#441 · 6 comments ·

  • RFC Citation Link Jumps
    Open
    awaiting-feedback rfc-display

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

    ietf-tools/red#440 · 3 comments ·

  • Soften BCP14 language
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 125 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    design tweak rfc-display

    ietf-tools/red#435 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • match cases for labels on search page
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 133 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    search text change UI

    ietf-tools/red#427 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Soften the strong shading used in sourcecode and tables
    Open
    design tweak rfc-display

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

    ietf-tools/red#425 · 1 comment ·

  • Make RFC formats easier to find
    May be free again @JayDaley claimed this 132 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    design tweak rfc-display

    ietf-tools/red#419 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Provide paragraph anchors in HTML files for older RFCs
    Open
    rfc-display

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    ietf-tools/red#418 · 2 comments ·

  • Copy buttons on sourcecode/figure mess with layout
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 141 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    rfc-display

    ietf-tools/red#415 · 16 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • RFC PDF page alt text bugs
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 145 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    rfc-display site-content

    ietf-tools/red#407 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Nit: line breaks between text and comma after a link
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 145 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    site-content

    ietf-tools/red#385 · 1 assignee ·

  • JavaScript bundle optimisations
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 161 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    user-interface

    ietf-tools/red#383 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Pilcrow positioning for sourcecode blocks
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 158 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    rfc-display

    ietf-tools/red#373 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Text width
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 148 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    rfc-display

    ietf-tools/red#370 · 8 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Outbound links are inconsistent
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 158 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    design tweak

    ietf-tools/red#369 · 8 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • RFC Notecards on search page strip punctuation and whitespace
    May be free again @jennifer-richards claimed this 164 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    user-interface

    ietf-tools/red#367 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • IETF report archive
    May be free again @ajeanmahoney claimed this 164 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    site-content

    ietf-tools/red#361 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Fix handling of "organization as author" in TXT refs
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 167 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    rfc-display

    ietf-tools/red#354 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Update links to Trust to IPMC
    May be free again @ajeanmahoney claimed this 164 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    site-content

    ietf-tools/red#298 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Author name differences for names with non-latin characters
    May be free again @holloway claimed this 164 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    rfc-display

    ietf-tools/red#225 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Reduce height of footer and content shown (for discussion)
    Possibly taken @holloway claimed this today. Open
    awaiting-triage user-interface

    ietf-tools/red#579 · 1 assignee ·

  • Update survey action buttons: Replace "Complete" with "Submit" and add "Cancel" button
    Possibly taken @holloway claimed this 7 days ago. Open
    user-interface

    ietf-tools/red#571 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • No fancy 404 page 😱
    Possibly taken @NGPixel claimed this 6 days ago. Open
    user-interface

    ietf-tools/red#568 · 2 assignees ·

  • Web notification text is hard to parse
    Possibly taken @holloway claimed this 13 days ago. Open
    awaiting-feedback user-interface

    ietf-tools/red#567 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • some section links to other RFCs don't quite work right (both production and staging)
    Possibly taken @holloway claimed this 20 days ago. Open
    rfc-display

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    ietf-tools/red#536 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

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