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In the last 30 days, rancher/dashboard merged 46 of 58 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 3 days. 14 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Avg merge
3d 20h
Merged PRs (30d)
195
Dominant language
TypeScript
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 8, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
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How to contribute to rancher/dashboard

  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. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  3. Pick one of the 14 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

  • Side menu shows wrong Rancher version in 2.16-head
    Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage kind/bug QA/dev-automation

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

    rancher/dashboard#19381 · 4 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Projects can be created with no resource quotas
    Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

    rancher/dashboard#19379 · 5 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Allow configuring RKE2 data-dir for Windows Nodes on cluster create
    Open
    area/clusterprovisioningv2 kind/enhancement QA/dev-automation RFD

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    rancher/dashboard#19360 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • [Test Improver] Monthly Activity 2026-10
    Open
    bot/daily-test-improver bot/skip-grooming

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

    rancher/dashboard#19346 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Add Rancher Repositories: clicking Add before the dialog has loaded adds nothing and closes silently
    Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage QA/dev-automation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

    rancher/dashboard#19326 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • The login page renders nothing indefinitely if a startup request stalls
    Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage QA/dev-automation

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

    rancher/dashboard#19320 · 5 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • The Extensions and Charts pages never re-read their catalog
    Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage QA/dev-automation

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

    rancher/dashboard#19319 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • A clusterrepo's chart index answers HTTP 500 for ~30s after the repo is created
    Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage QA/dev-automation

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    rancher/dashboard#19318 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Feature: Provide "Manage" link in Explore view for pending clusters
    Open
    area/dashboard kind/enhancement needs-info QA/dev-automation

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

    rancher/dashboard#19311 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Expose Role Promoted Rules Logic
    Open
    area/auth kind/enhancement QA/dev-automation RFD

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

    rancher/dashboard#19284 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Support Auth Config OIDC Keycloak searching with LDAP
    Open
    area/dashboard kind/enhancement QA/dev-automation

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

    rancher/dashboard#19279 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • [aw] Detection Runs
    Open
    agentic-workflows

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

    rancher/dashboard#19215 · 6 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • [backport v2.14.7] [BUG] Users created with 2.14.1 / 2.14.2 / 2.15.0 cannot login
    May be free again @rak-phillip claimed this 28 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/auth kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19113 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • [backport v2.15.3] [BUG] Users created with 2.14.1 / 2.14.2 / 2.15.0 cannot login
    May be free again @rak-phillip claimed this 28 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/auth kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19112 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Table of Contents doesnt work with nested RcSections
    May be free again @mantis-toboggan-md claimed this 29 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/dashboard kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19099 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Detail page renders blank when the store's find is short-circuited by the page-cache guard
    Open
    area/server-side-pagination kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

    rancher/dashboard#19075 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Make Prime Extensions more discoverable
    Open
    area/extensions kind/enhancement QA/dev-automation

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

    rancher/dashboard#19055 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Customisable Side Menu
    Open
    area/dashboard kind/enhancement QA/dev-automation

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

    rancher/dashboard#19054 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Non-admin users get a blank page installing a chart from Cluster Management
    May be free again @momesgin claimed this 36 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/apps kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19053 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • build-pkg.sh fails with 'ln: failed to create symbolic link .shell: File exists' after an interrupted build
    Open
    area/extensions kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

    rancher/dashboard#19042 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Increase vertical log out alert padding
    May be free again @rak-phillip claimed this 37 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/auth kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19025 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Add a banner message related to not having Add-On calico option
    Open
    area/clusterprovisioningv2 area/dashboard area/rke2 JIRA kind/bug QA/dev-automation

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

    rancher/dashboard#19000 · 2 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Create agent for fixing low hanging fruit enhancements
    May be free again @cnotv claimed this 43 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/ai kind/tech-debt needs-info QA/None

    rancher/dashboard#18951 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Create agent automation for handling backlog issues
    May be free again @cnotv claimed this 43 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/ai kind/tech-debt needs-info QA/None

    rancher/dashboard#18950 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • [EPIC] Create agents to fix low hanging fruit of different areas
    May be free again @cnotv claimed this 43 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/ai Epic kind/tech-debt needs-info QA/None

    rancher/dashboard#18949 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Move cloud provider config into a composable
    May be free again @eva-vashkevich claimed this 44 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/clusterprovisioningv2 QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#18943 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Expose setting priorityClassName for cattle-cluster-agent in Dashboard
    Open
    area/clusterprovisioningv2 JIRA kind/enhancement priority/1 QA/dev-automation

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    rancher/dashboard#18938 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • GKE ui shows invalid versions when editing imported GKE clusters
    May be free again @IsaSih claimed this 29 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/dashboard area/gke kind/bug needs-info QA/dev-automation status/backport-candidate

    rancher/dashboard#18933 · 4 comments · 2 assignees ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Theme maintenance: show focus ring only on keyboard focus, and update secondary menu colors
    Possibly taken @rak-phillip claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    area/components bot/ready-for-triage kind/enhancement QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19472 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Migrate the auth provider dialogs to RcModal
    Possibly taken @rak-phillip claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    area/auth area/components bot/ready-for-triage kind/enhancement QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19464 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • ToC 1st-level links should be bold
    Possibly taken A pull request linked to this issue is open or already merged. Open
    area/components bot/ready-for-triage kind/enhancement QA/manual-test

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

    rancher/dashboard#19457 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • PR check for linked issue / `QA/None` label no longer fails PRs
    Possibly taken @richard-cox claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    area/engineering bot/ready-for-triage kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19452 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Extension table hooks are not called when filtering a table with table views
    Possibly taken A pull request linked to this issue is open or already merged. Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage kind/bug QA/dev-automation regression

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

    rancher/dashboard#19449 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Extension Compatibility Test 8.3 fails: CodeMirrorPo.first() reuses a stored chain, so set() runs on the editor text
    Possibly taken A pull request linked to this issue is open or already merged. Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage kind/bug QA/dev-automation regression

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

    rancher/dashboard#19448 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Extension list pages are blank on Rancher 2.10-2.15 when built with the current shell (Unknown preference: table-views)
    Possibly taken A pull request linked to this issue is open or already merged. Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage kind/bug QA/dev-automation regression

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

    rancher/dashboard#19447 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Add the RcModal component
    Possibly taken @codyrancher claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    area/components area/storybook bot/ready-for-triage kind/enhancement QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19437 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Hide the ui-configurable-dashboards feature flag from the Feature Flags list
    Possibly taken @marcelofukumoto claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage kind/enhancement QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19432 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Show the external-link icon on the Harvester learn-more links
    Possibly taken @marcelofukumoto claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    area/harvester bot/ready-for-triage kind/bug QA/dev-automation small-scope (mixin)

    rancher/dashboard#19428 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Pod Execute Shell: Ctrl+V paste does not work in Firefox with Rancher 2.15.x
    Possibly taken @momesgin claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    area/dashboard kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19423 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Super-charged tables: optional Description column
    Possibly taken @marcelofukumoto claimed this 3 days ago. Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage kind/enhancement QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19398 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Super-charged tables: share views with everyone through the TableConfiguration CRD
    Possibly taken @marcelofukumoto claimed this 3 days ago. Open
    area/dashboard bot/ready-for-triage kind/enhancement QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19394 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Super-charged tables: fixes from the dev review
    Possibly taken @marcelofukumoto claimed this 3 days ago. Open
    area/dashboard kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19392 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Show new kubeconfig ACE setting
    Possibly taken @rak-phillip claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    area/auth kind/enhancement needs-info QA/dev-automation

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

    rancher/dashboard#19387 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • a11y: fix aria-required-children violation
    Possibly taken @codyrancher claimed this 4 days ago. Open
    area/accessibility kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19383 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • a11y: fix nested-interactive violation
    Possibly taken @codyrancher claimed this 4 days ago. Open
    area/accessibility kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19382 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • Observed timestamps are not correct in growl message.
    Possibly taken @rushk014 claimed this 4 days ago. Open
    area/dashboard kind/bug QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19374 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • [backport v2.15.3] Deployment Metrics tab sends kind=Deployment instead of ReplicaSet (No data / wrong workload)
    Possibly taken @IsaSih claimed this 3 days ago. Open
    area/dashboard QA/dev-automation

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100

    rancher/dashboard#19371 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

  • [backport v2.14.7] Deployment Metrics tab sends kind=Deployment instead of ReplicaSet (No data / wrong workload)
    Possibly taken @IsaSih claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    area/dashboard QA/dev-automation

    rancher/dashboard#19370 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

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