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In the last 30 days, istio/test-infra merged 14 of 14 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

Stars
84
Forks
192
Open beginner issues
1
Indexed issues
22
Avg merge
18h 4m
Merged PRs (30d)
43
Dominant language
Go
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 17, 2026
Contributing guide
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted

How to contribute to istio/test-infra

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  3. Pick the open beginner-friendly issue 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

  • Standardize `_DOCKER_` variable to make them more generic
    Open

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

    istio/test-infra#6058 ·

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  • migrate kubernetes-external-secrets to external-secrets-operator
    Open

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

    istio/test-infra#5931 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Secret management for private prow cluster
    Open

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

    istio/test-infra#5357 ·

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  • auto-merge label not set on docs cherrypicks
    Open

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

    istio/test-infra#4140 · 7 comments ·

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  • Cherrypicker not picking up release-1.14 comments
    Open

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

    istio/test-infra#4098 · 5 comments ·

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  • idea: shared, dedicated builder
    Open

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

    istio/test-infra#3912 ·

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  • Optimize build cluster performance
    Open

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

    istio/test-infra#3890 · 2 comments ·

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  • Look into censoring secrets
    Open

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

    istio/test-infra#3887 ·

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  • generate on branching added extra image: field on jobs pointing to master
    Open
    area/test and release

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

    istio/test-infra#3792 · 4 comments ·

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  • Update Grafana instance
    Open
    asks-to-engprod

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

    istio/test-infra#3733 · 1 comment ·

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  • "Job History" broken - data is multiple months stale
    Open
    asks-to-engprod

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

    istio/test-infra#3583 · 2 comments ·

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  • `generate.go branch` does not fork explicitly referenced images
    Open

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

    istio/test-infra#3125 · 2 comments ·

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  • Cleanup istio-testing GCS buckets
    Open
    area/test and release

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

    istio/test-infra#3018 · 2 comments ·

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  • Idea: Extending Authentikos to other credential types
    Open

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

    istio/test-infra#2659 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Create e2e test(s) for automator
    Open

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

    istio/test-infra#2640 ·

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  • Refactor and simplify make deployments
    May be free again @clarketm claimed this 2379 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    istio/test-infra#2552 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Test result analytics
    Open
    help wanted lifecycle/needs-triage

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

    istio/test-infra#2349 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Cherrypicker missing many (all?) cherrypicks from label
    May be free again @clarketm claimed this 2436 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    prow

    istio/test-infra#2309 · 15 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Run branchprotector as a postsubmit
    Open
    asks-to-engprod help wanted prow

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

    istio/test-infra#2299 ·

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  • Formalize automator.sh into a proper Golang program.
    May be free again @clarketm claimed this 2483 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    asks-to-engprod lifecycle/staleproof

    istio/test-infra#2212 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Investigate GCB as a provider for image publishing jobs
    Open
    asks-to-engprod help wanted prow

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

    istio/test-infra#2211 ·

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  • Lacking Prow cluster metrics
    May be free again @clarketm claimed this 2351 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    help wanted

    istio/test-infra#1638 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

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