Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Ranked by how they treat first pull requests

The most beginner-friendly Haskell open source projects

Projects that merge pull requests from outside contributors and answer them quickly: the two things a newcomer cannot see before sending one.

  1. A Direct-to-Driver open mobility platform powering the next-generation of mobility applications in India.

    74% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

    5 open beginner issues 2,569 stars

  2. SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!

    59% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

    9 open beginner issues 19,462 stars

  3. 3. digital-asset/daml Haskell

    The Daml smart contract language

    80% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

    9 open beginner issues 917 stars

  4. The Software Analysis Workbench

    75% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

    3 open beginner issues 519 stars

  5. This repository contains sources for the command-line interface (CLI) tool for interacting with the Cardano blockchain.

    54% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

    1 open beginner issue 71 stars

  6. 6. fossas/fossa-cli Haskell

    Fast, portable and reliable dependency analysis for any codebase. Supports license & vulnerability scanning for large monoliths. Language-agnostic; integrates with 20+ build systems.

    70% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

    1 open beginner issue 1,518 stars

  7. Implementation of the Hydra Head protocol

    54% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

    18 open beginner issues 337 stars

  8. The core component that is used to participate in a Cardano decentralised blockchain.

    63% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

    3 open beginner issues 3,178 stars

  9. Implementation of a Consensus Layer for the Ouroboros family of protocols

    47% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 3 days

    2 open beginner issues 67 stars

  10. The ledger implementation and specifications of the Cardano blockchain.

    64% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 4 days

    3 open beginner issues 295 stars

  11. HTTP server & command-line for managing UTxOs and HD wallets in Cardano.

    0% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

    2 open beginner issues 823 stars

How this ranking works

Score = merge rate × reply speed. The merge rate is the share of pull requests from outside contributors (anyone who is not an owner, member or collaborator of the project, bots excluded) merged in the last 30 days, smoothed as (merged + 1) ÷ (sent + 2) so a few lucky merges do not outrank a long record. The reply speed is 1 ÷ (1 + the median number of days before a pull request gets its first reply from someone other than its author, or is merged). Bot comments do not count as replies.

Listed: projects with at least 10 outside pull requests in that window, at least one open beginner issue, at least 10 stars, a push in the last 180 days, not archived, and measured in the last 30 days.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.