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OpenSrc lists 153 Go repositories with open issues for new contributors, and 66 of them are first-PR friendly. Between them they have 2,052 open good first issues and 3,622 help-wanted issues. The median welcome score is 72/100, and the best-scored right now are microsoft/TypeScript, tailscale/tailscale and jaegertracing/jaeger. Most are about DevOps & Cloud, Security and OS & Systems.

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  • microsoft/TypeScript

    TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

    12good first issues+782 help wanted
    • Go
    • Stars:111.3K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~1h
    Score95 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • tailscale/tailscale

    The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

    9good first issues+9 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Security
    • Stars:37K
    • BSD-3-Clause
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~18h
    Score92 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • jaegertracing/jaeger

    CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

    18good first issues+42 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:23.3K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~3d
    Score90 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • velero-io/velero

    Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes

    16good first issues+25 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:10.3K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~21h
    Score89 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • cockroachdb/cockroach

    CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale…

    52good first issues+1 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Databases
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:32.5K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score88 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • rclone/rclone

    "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google…

    12good first issues+180 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: DevOps
    • Field: Security
    • Stars:60K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~3d
    Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • argoproj/argo-cd

    Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

    42good first issues+14 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:24.3K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~7h
    Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • lima-vm/lima

    Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

    6good first issues+11 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: DevOps
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:22K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~10h
    Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws

    The AWS Provider enables Terraform to manage AWS resources.

    48good first issues
    • Go
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:11.1K
    • MPL-2.0
    • replies in ~32h
    Score87 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • podman-container-tools/podman

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    24good first issues
    • Go
    • Field: DevOps
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:33K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~16h
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • zitadel/zitadel

    ZITADEL - Identity infrastructure, simplified for you.

    43good first issues+7 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Security
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:15.1K
    • AGPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • zigflow/zigflow

    Define durable workflows in YAML, powered by Temporal

    10good first issues+7 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Editors
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:211
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~4h
    Score85 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • milvus-io/milvus

    Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

    33good first issues+13 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Databases
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Stars:46.3K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • alibaba/open-code-review

    Secure, fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool…

    6good first issues+5 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Databases
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Stars:42.4K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~5h
    Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • google/gvisor

    Application Kernel for Containers

    13good first issues+34 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: DevOps
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:19.4K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • kubernetes-sigs/aws-load-balancer-controller

    A Kubernetes controller for Elastic Load Balancers

    26good first issues
    • Go
    • Field: DevOps
    • Field: Backend
    • Stars:4.3K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~2d
    Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • purpleidea/mgmt

    Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!

    7good first issues+28 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: DevOps
    • Field: OS
    • Stars:4.3K
    • GPL-3.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~8h
    Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • livepeer/go-livepeer

    Official Go implementation of the Livepeer protocol

    26good first issues+15 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Blockchain
    • Field: Networking
    • Stars:586
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~35h
    Score84 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • juanfont/headscale

    An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

    4good first issues+8 help wanted
    • Go
    • Stars:44.2K
    • BSD-3-Clause
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~3d
    Score83 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • TecharoHQ/anubis

    Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers

    3good first issues+3 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Security
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Stars:22.8K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~31h
    Score83 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • syncthing/syncthing

    Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

    4good first issues
    • Go
    • Field: Networking
    • Stars:89K
    • MPL-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~2h
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • pingcap/tidb

    TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for…

    59good first issues+179 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Databases
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:40.6K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • thanos-io/thanos

    Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.

    40good first issues+75 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Observability
    • Field: DevOps
    • Stars:14.2K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30d
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • nikoksr/notify

    A dead simple Go library for sending notifications to various messaging services.

    16good first issues+18 help wanted
    • Go
    • Stars:3.9K
    • MIT
    • CONTRIBUTING
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • thunder-id/thunderid

    ThunderID is a high-performance, open-source identity stack designed for developers to secure and manage…

    37good first issues
    • Go
    • Field: Security
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Stars:586
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~11h
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • elastic/elastic-agent

    Elastic Agent - single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host.

    13good first issues+1 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:280
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~2h
    Score82 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • multica-ai/multica

    Make humans and AI agents work as one team — open-source and self-hostable.

    3good first issues+1 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Stars:51.6K
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~12h
    Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • keploy/keploy

    Open-source platform for creating safe, isolated production sandboxes for API, integration, and E2E testing.

    77good first issues+21 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Machine Learning
    • Field: Testing
    • Stars:18.5K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~30d
    Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

  • google/osv-scanner

    Vulnerability scanner written in Go which uses the data provided by https://osv.dev

    5good first issues
    • Go
    • Field: Security
    • Field: Networking
    • Stars:11.1K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~32h
    Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcomingFirst-PR friendly

  • perses/perses

    The CNCF sandbox for observability visualisation. Already supports Prometheus, Tempo, Loki and Pyroscope…

    21good first issues+16 help wanted
    • Go
    • Field: Observability
    • Stars:2.5K
    • Apache-2.0
    • CONTRIBUTING
    • replies in ~4d
    Score81 out of 100 contributor score, very welcoming

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