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Build System Good First Issues
Open issues about Build System from GitHub projects in every language. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly, and the subject's other names are matched too.
Build System
- Open issues
- 240k
- New this week
- 2.9k
- Nobody on it yet
- 222k
- Average difficulty
- 3.7/5
What this list is like
- Average annotated difficulty: 3.7/5 across 248,698 issues.
- 12% of 248,698 time estimates are one day or less.
Updated Oct 8, 2026.
About Build System
Build systems compile, package and link a project: build scripts, dependency management, packaging and release artifacts.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
aks129/HealthClawGuardrails#917 ·
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area/build area/tech debt
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
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Bump .cicd to wamp-cicd 4c2f9ac: `just land` refuses open A18 decisions, `just where` lists themOpen
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 82/100
crossbario/cfxdb#139 ·
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 69/100
SpecterOps/Janus#6 · 1 comment ·
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C21 publishes `reactivemongo/core/SSL` as Java 23 bytecode — TLS connections fail on any JDK < 23Open
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100
ReactiveMongo/ReactiveMongo#1520 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
oxc-project/oxc-node#804 ·
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100
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Ubuntu .deb packages ship all files owned by uid/gid 1001 (CI user runner) instead of root:rootOpen
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
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bug priority/major
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
apache/flink-agents#1209 ·
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
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bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
nf-core/proteinfold#658 ·
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bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 69/100
EBI-Metagenomics/metaViraVerse#41 · 1 comment ·
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bug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100
conda-forge/binutils-feedstock#118 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100
xmake-io/xmake-repo#11012 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
lightpanda-io/browser#3852 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
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ci-cd devops enhancement good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
PicadoLabs/ai-model-router#47 ·
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Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100
objectionary/phino#1795 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100
objectionary/phino#1790 ·
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Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
pytest-dev/pluggy#757 ·
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status: team-only type: dependency-upgrade
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100
spring-projects/spring-boot#52098 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100
crazy-goat/php-fpm-ng#877 ·
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100
crazy-goat/php-fpm-ng#875 ·
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https://docs.asciidoctor.org/gradle-plugin/latest/model5/configure-publication/ seems to be brokenOpen
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
asciidoctor/asciidoctor-gradle-plugin#813 ·
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status: needs triage
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100
mastra-ai/mastra#26377 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100
Maintainers usually reply within 5 days
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 76/100
vercel-labs/mcp-handler#197 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
ggml-org/whisper.cpp#4103 ·
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.NET triage
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
rjmurillo/moq.analyzers#1389 ·
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good first issue
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
dhall-lang/dhall-haskell#2870 ·
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Build fails with GCC 16 and -march=native: -Werror=array-bounds in DynamicWorld::soundOclusion()Openbug
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
Try/OpenGothic#1010 ·
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dependencies security
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
tosin2013/local-knowledge-vault#241 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
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out-of-date
Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS#1959 ·
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out-of-date
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS#1958 ·
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enhancement
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
usnistgov/metaschema#820 ·
Maintainers usually reply within 28 days
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Mend: dependency security vulnerability untriaged
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
opensearch-project/opensearch-build#6508 ·
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Mend: dependency security vulnerability untriaged
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100
opensearch-project/opensearch-build#6507 ·
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electron tech debt
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
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Area: Instruments Bug Difficulty: Low Priority: Low
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100
DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture#1801 ·
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Area: Instruments Bug Difficulty: Low Good First Issue Priority: Low
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100
DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture#1800 ·
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Area: Instruments Bug Difficulty: Low Good First Issue Priority: Low
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100
DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture#1799 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100
HDCharts/charts#750 · 1 comment ·
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bench needs-triage
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
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Area: Infrastructure Bug Difficulty: Low Good First Issue Priority: Medium
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100
DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture#1766 ·
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maintenance
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100
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Questions
- How many Build System issues are open here?
- 239,797 open issues: 2,860 opened in the last seven days, and 222,412 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
- Where do I start?
- Pick an issue marked beginner-friendly, read the project's contributing guide and comment before you begin. The contributor guide walks through it, from choosing an issue to your first pull request.
- Can you pick one for me?
- Yes: sign in with GitHub and Your next issue shows one open issue nobody has claimed, matched to your languages, your time and the difficulty you want.