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Is inbo/checklist beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to inbo/checklist to say how often they are merged. 3 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars
21
Forks
2
Open beginner issues
3
Indexed issues
18
Dominant language
R
License
GPL-3.0
Last GitHub push
Jun 28, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
Code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed
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How to contribute to inbo/checklist

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
  3. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  4. Pick one of the 3 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

  • [Bug]: gha_install in checklist.yml is skipped in projects without renv.lock
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

    inbo/checklist#214 · 1 comment ·

  • bug: when organisation.yml has no git key, check_lintr() errors
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

    inbo/checklist#212 ·

  • [Bug]: GHA release fails
    Open
    bug

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

    inbo/checklist#211 ·

  • [Bug]: Error on missing
    Open
    bug

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

    inbo/checklist#210 ·

  • [Bug]: confusing error message
    Open
    bug

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

    inbo/checklist#208 · 1 comment ·

  • [Feature]: Use newest inbo/actions
    Open
    enhancement

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

    inbo/checklist#207 ·

  • [Bug]: Badge URLs with spaces are not URL-encoded
    Open
    bug

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

    inbo/checklist#206 ·

  • [Feature]: Clarify prompts when adding multiple rightsholders, funders, and publishers
    Open
    enhancement

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

    inbo/checklist#205 ·

  • [Feature]: Add codemeta json to update_citation
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

    inbo/checklist#201 ·

  • [Feature]: Use X-schema.org-keywords for packages
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    inbo/checklist#200 ·

  • Strange behaviour in `check_spelling()`
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    inbo/checklist#191 · 2 comments ·

  • setup_package() unexpected changes to _pkgdown.yml
    Open

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

    inbo/checklist#188 · 7 comments ·

  • add check for large files under version controle
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    inbo/checklist#127 ·

  • License field: use SPDX ID when translating to citation files
    Open

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

    inbo/checklist#110 · 2 comments ·

  • Code coverage
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    inbo/checklist#9 ·

  • community
    Open

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

    inbo/checklist#6 ·

  • check RStudio project
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    inbo/checklist#5 · 2 comments ·

  • check documentation
    May be free again @ThierryO claimed this 2280 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    documentation enhancement

    inbo/checklist#2 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

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