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Is mskcc/ridgeback beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to mskcc/ridgeback to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
1
Forks
2
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
38
Avg merge
3h 33m
Merged PRs (30d)
2
Dominant language
Python
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Jun 16, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 20, 2026
No contributing guide
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
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How to contribute to mskcc/ridgeback

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  4. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.
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  • Fix Tenacity errors which are happening in CHECK_COMMAND_LINE_STATUS
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#243 ·

  • Elastic apm configuration parameters should be set through env
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

    mskcc/ridgeback#242 ·

  • Investigate argument list too long errors
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#241 ·

  • Investigate TOIL and GPFS
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#240 ·

  • Revert toil version on staging
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    mskcc/ridgeback#239 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Investigate numerous extra log files from toil
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#236 · 1 comment ·

  • Fix location of output file for Nextflow
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    mskcc/ridgeback#229 ·

  • Add automatic restart
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#223 ·

  • Document TOIL overwrite behavior
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#218 ·

  • Separate memcache_lock, and GithubCache into separate lib
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    mskcc/ridgeback#203 ·

  • Use Black for code formatting
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#201 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Clean up requirements.txt
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

    mskcc/ridgeback#200 ·

  • Batch Call for Get Status of the Jobs
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#188 ·

  • Refactor check_status_of_command_line_tools
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#187 ·

  • Git Repository Cache
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#186 ·

  • Batch bjobs
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#185 ·

  • Load Test for check_status_job
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    mskcc/ridgeback#184 ·

  • Refactor Status Transition Logic
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#183 ·

  • State Machine for Job Statuses
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#182 ·

  • One Instance of check_status Running at a Time
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    mskcc/ridgeback#181 ·

  • Separate queues for check_status/submit job workers
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    mskcc/ridgeback#180 ·

  • Deploy Script Improvement
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#179 ·

  • Refactor how we check job status
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#166 ·

  • missing jobstore
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    mskcc/ridgeback#164 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Some abort jobs are failing on flower
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#149 ·

  • Abort job should also kill child jobs
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#141 ·

  • Feature request for an endpoint to restart/run not enough memory jobs
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#138 ·

  • Make ACCESS downstream workflows only require 6 hours walltime
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#123 ·

  • Clean up tasks.py and toil_track_utils.py
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    mskcc/ridgeback#118 · 1 assignee ·

  • Test with latest toil
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#114 ·

  • testing ridgeback ticket on clickup
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    mskcc/ridgeback#111 ·

  • Setup a chronological database backup
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    mskcc/ridgeback#100 ·

  • Prevent duplicate command line status jobs from running on celery
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#98 ·

  • Input/Output Templates
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    mskcc/ridgeback#79 · 1 assignee ·

  • Nextflow Orchestrator
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    mskcc/ridgeback#78 · 1 assignee ·

  • Organize ridgeback run metadata
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    mskcc/ridgeback#52 · 1 assignee ·

  • Consistency between dev instance setup and production deployment methods
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#45 · 1 comment ·

  • Add Nextflow support
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    mskcc/ridgeback#18 · 1 comment ·

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