Open issues by priority

Note: Empty urgency/impact categories are omitted.

urg

immediately

imp

serious

#2097
`ch-run`: ENTRYPOINT/CMD not applied for squashfs images
Mar 30 – Apr 10
- inprogress
- 0.45
- loshak
- urg
  
  immediately
- imp
  
  serious
- !2016 ch-run: fix ENTRYPOINT/CMD handling for squashfs images
#2119
ch-run: invokes ENTRYPOINT even when command given
Jun 5 – Jun 5
- inprogress
- 0.45
- loshak
- urg
  
  immediately
- imp
  
  serious
- !2016 ch-run: fix ENTRYPOINT/CMD handling for squashfs images

imp

important

#2123
ENTRYPOINT/CMD metadata from pulled images not parsed
Jun 5 – Jun 5
- inprogress
- 0.45
- loshak
- urg
  
  immediately
- imp
  
  important
- !2016 ch-run: fix ENTRYPOINT/CMD handling for squashfs images

urg

soonish

imp

serious

#998
ch-image pull: proxy error
Mar 9 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  serious
#1915
ch-test is unwieldy
Aug 1 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  serious
- !1933 test suite III

imp

important

#2127
update TSC membership
Jul 1 – Jul 1
- inprogress
- 0.45
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
- !2022 update governance
#2128
update SquashFUSE dependency to 0.4.0
Jul 1 – Jul 1
- inprogress
- 0.45
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
- !2023 libsquashfuse 0.4.0 with actual test
#2031
figure out a way to run the GitLab CI pipelines locally
Jul 18 – Sep 11, 2025
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2083
assertion error: cdi bind munge socket
Dec 16 – Dec 16, 2025
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1979
document new mailing lists
Feb 7 – Apr 10
- open
- 0.45
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2102
“ch-image sync“ or similar
Apr 13 – Apr 13
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#846
ENV parsing has rough edges
Sep 15 – Apr 13
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2110
release tarballs need predictable URLs
Apr 22 – Apr 24
- open
- 0.45
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2113
libpseudo: add filesystem emulation
May 18 – May 18
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2114
add guidelines for responsible disclosure to documentation
May 18 – May 29
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2121
ch-image list depends on network
Jun 5 – Jun 5
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2112
root emulation: maintain deceit between build stages
May 13 – Jun 29
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1970
ch-run: better error for compiled-out options
Jan 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1974
refactor C freetext doc comments to Doxygen (or something)
Feb 1 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2002
ch-run --bind=FILE
May 20 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2010
stop a build early
Jun 18 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2016
keep GitHub as a mirror
Jun 25 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2025
ch-fromhost: document deprecation
Jun 25 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2026
fix de-duplication bug Angelica found
Jun 25 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1783
ch-run-oci: clarify status
Nov 28 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1938
reduce Docker Hub rate limit consumption in test suite
Nov 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1943
add CH_TEST_BUILDER=docker test
Nov 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1946
restore tests that need Docker/Podman
Nov 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1949
add job to validate build without automake(1) and autoconf(1)
Nov 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1950
validate that gitlab.com stuff is in tarball
Nov 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1523
Dockerfile grammar: tidy and make LALR
Dec 22 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1341
update “environment variables” sections
May 16 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1392
ch-convert: converting centos7xz.sqfs to a tar fails with perms error
Jun 24 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1670
GitLab CI: Change scheduled test to full scope?
Jun 7 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1678
validate caching when underlying base image changes
Jun 8 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2098
Python: increase minimum beyond 3.6?
Apr 2 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2106
swap layers at runtime
Apr 13 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2020
CDI: infer bind-mount destination
Jun 25 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1951
--set-env: support arbitrary container paths
Nov 26 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
- !1953 new flag: --env
#1153
ch-test should build example images if they don't exist
Aug 13 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
- !1933 test suite III
#2055
archive old issue labels
Sep 12 – Sep 15, 2025
- blocked
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1567
--force=seccomp: fails under Arch Linux
Feb 17, 2023 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
- !2020 ePiC WiNNiNg: Root emulation with libpseudo
#1701
Sharing $CH_IMAGE_STORAGE with UNIX groups
Jul 20, 2023 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1990
bad build performance for large Spack containers
Mar 21 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#2050
push SquashFS layers
Sep 4 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important
#1489
avoid walking image tree with Watchman
Nov 14 – Jun 30
- uncertain
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  important

imp

normal

#2053
ch-convert: does not default to --no-xattrs as documented
Sep 9 – Sep 10, 2025
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2090
--join-pid fails to execute in container and breaks parent shell stty
Feb 3 – Feb 6
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2095
build cache: quick restore doesn’t restore atime
Feb 22 – Feb 22
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2103
`ch-image list` should show build cache status
Apr 13 – Apr 13
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2107
static build option
Apr 13 – Apr 13
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2115
ch-run: support WORKDIR
May 28 – May 29
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2120
ch-checkns: leaves behind /tmp/newroot
Jun 5 – Jun 5
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2124
`ch-image` barfs if `CH_IMAGE_USERNAME` not set and no stdin
Jun 22 – Jun 22
- open
- 0.45
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2111
Introduce wait and retry mechanism for ch-image pull
May 12 – Jun 29
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2000
remove GitHub references from code
May 14 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#1749
run SIF files with ch-run
Oct 31 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
- !1928 ch-run: run SIF files
#764
ch-image build: variable substitution: empty string for undefined variables
Jun 15 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#776
ch-image build: variable substitution: always do it internally
Jun 22 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#1646
ch-build --force=seccomp can’t install systemd
May 1 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
- !2020 ePiC WiNNiNg: Root emulation with libpseudo
#534
investigate pyxis
Aug 30 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2104
libgc version check
Apr 13 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2039
Documentation: Update URL to linuxcontainers.org maintained images
Jul 26 – Jun 30
- open
- 0.45
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#533
compare to enroot
Aug 30 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#2125
assertion failure when binding file to non-existent path on R/O image
Jun 23 – Jul 1
- open
- 0.45
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
#1176
ch-image --force: rename chatter prefix
Sep 15, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- reidpr
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal
- !2020 ePiC WiNNiNg: Root emulation with libpseudo
#1490
build cache: TRACE2 performance analysis
Nov 14, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  soonish
- imp
  
  normal

urg

eventually

imp

serious

#42
macOS support
Oct 25 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  serious
#477
CI: use cache to speed up testing
Jul 3, 2019 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  serious
#639
tests: figure out how to test containerized web apps
Feb 11, 2020 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  serious

imp

important

#1960
display metadata after pull/build
Jan 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1963
FAQ needs general revision/update
Jan 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1980
track container launch performance
Feb 11 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#2006
ch-image: cached pull followed by non-cached pull breaks multiple sub-commands
Jun 11 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#2009
better support to examine a failed container build
Jun 18 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#2018
print warning count instead of re-printing them
Jun 25 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#2028
make --unset-env argument optional
Jul 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1753
add progress meter for Git operations
Oct 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1754
run OCI bundles
Oct 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
- !1870 ch-run: run oci bundles
#1755
ch-convert: import/export OCI images
Oct 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1926
running commands that use ch-run as root fails with non-obvious seccomp error
Sep 20 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#918
CI: configure isn’t thoroughly tested
Dec 4 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#929
docs: clarify what the build context is and how it differs from current working directory
Dec 16 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1260
replace argp with something more portable
Dec 21 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#652
ch-image pull: more pull test images
Feb 21 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#952
CI: check for configure errors/warnings that don't stop the build
Jan 7 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#982
ch-image: Further optimization of "resolving whiteouts"
Feb 10 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1020
squashfs: tag mounts somehow so they're identifiable as Charliecloud
Mar 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1532
build cache: make ch-image list work even if another process is using it
Jan 10 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1416
ch-image: push: generate layers
Jul 27 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1595
refactor python code to use type hints
Mar 9 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#829
Python code: refactor file stuff
Aug 20 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#458
kernel patch to support mapping more than one GID for user namespaces
Jun 11 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#871
ch-image: rename images in opaque storage
Oct 13 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1940
bring gitlab.com CI to parity with prior GitHub Actions CI
Nov 1, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#132
build OpenMPI examples with XPMEM support
Mar 15, 2018 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#230
recommend how to run non-MPI worker daemons on a Slurm cluster
Aug 24, 2018 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#730
ch-run: make --join the default in certain scenarios
Apr 30, 2020 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#836
change docs from Sphinx to something else?
Aug 26, 2020 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1091
ch-image: arch support: add detailed architecture info
Jun 7, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1398
ch-image: allow concurrent builds
Jul 5, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1797
ch-image import: use GNU tar instead of tarfile library
Dec 13, 2023 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#1860
add pylint to test suite
Mar 12, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important
#2012
link GitLab issues to source code mentions
Jun 18 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  important

imp

normal

#2038
rm dependency on GNU utilities
Jul 24 – Sep 11, 2025
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#2049
containerized time zone should match host by default
Sep 2 – Sep 11, 2025
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#2063
document issue title convention in contributor’s guilde
Sep 15 – Sep 15, 2025
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#2091
“ch-image build-cache” should use “git repo structure”
Feb 17 – Feb 17
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#2099
excessive globals in irtree.py
Apr 2 – Apr 2
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1989
ch-run: add `--bind-mkdir-yolo`
Mar 21 – Apr 10
- open
- 0.45
- reidpr
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1958
unminimize(8) breaks build
Jan 31 – Apr 13
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
- !2020 ePiC WiNNiNg: Root emulation with libpseudo
#2105
compare to bubblewrap
Apr 13 – Apr 13
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1565
remove --force=fakeroot
Feb 17 – May 29
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
- !2020 ePiC WiNNiNg: Root emulation with libpseudo
#1956
use “#.” for numbered lists in docs
Jan 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1967
make file-internal C functions “static”
Jan 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1961
--set-env command line misparse
Jan 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1964
registry operations should have a timeout
Jan 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1969
ch-run: warnings cleanups
Jan 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1971
ch-image: add UNIXey subcommand aliases
Jan 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1965
--bind: shorten description and refer to §8.6
Jan 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1976
make “/” (host root directory) work as a container
Feb 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1996
can’t parse heredocs
Apr 21 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#2013
mem.c API improvements
Jun 18 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#2014
Failure to parse stupid filenames
Jun 24 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#2022
CDI: better error testing
Jun 25 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#2023
CDI: directories should have precedence
Jun 25 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1676
import: be smarter about cache
Jun 8 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1842
ch-completion.bash: install
Feb 14 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1702
be more transparent when encountering duplicate state IDs
Jul 21 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1752
validate Git repo at image root is OK
Oct 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1844
configure: add --with-libfuse3
Feb 21 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1867
Pylint: enforce C-style string formatting
Mar 20 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1886
restore ObsPy/Miniconda to latest
Mar 27 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1891
seccomp root emulation: filter capset(2) with more nuance
Apr 15 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1768
JIT compile seccomp byte code
Nov 3 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1901
Windows 95 support
May 14 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1903
tab completion: implement for ch-image modify
May 20 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1795
RUN --mount support
Dec 8 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1796
ch-convert: check to see if the target image has already been converted
Dec 12 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1807
ch-completion.bash: tidy
Jan 11 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1913
ch-image modify: improve non-existent shell error message
Jul 17 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1914
Enforce log level consistency across code
Jul 24 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1806
make tab completion handle spaces in filenames correctly
Jan 11 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1819
use Python 3.12 tar extraction filters
Jan 23 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1930
configure: --enable-buggy-build should also disable -W for sphinx-build
Oct 15 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1931
ch-completion.bash causing git errors
Oct 18 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1937
test “ch-run --join-pid: errors” false negative when in Docker container
Oct 31 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1939
optimize Debian CI image size
Nov 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1944
add CH_TEST_BUILDER=podman tests
Nov 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1947
artifact name set in “defaults” is not used
Nov 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#1948
reduce parallelism of image build
Nov 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#572
update comments & possibly code in light of man-pages 5.03
Oct 21 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#599
build: libsotest symlinks become regular files in "make install"
Dec 20 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  normal
#641
docs: be consistent about long option argument separator
Feb 12 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#896
ch-image: can't pull gcr.io images with tag "latest"
Nov 6 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#907
automate COPY test conditions
Nov 17 – Jun 30
- open
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#1209
test “--with-libsquashfuse={yes,no,PATH}”
Oct 21 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1244
audit code for stale FIXMEs, etc.
Nov 23 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1256
OCI Image support
Dec 13 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1463
replace string conversions in startswith()
Oct 6 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#1512
LABEL does not allow multi-line value declarations in Dockerfiles
Dec 14 – Jun 30
- open
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  normal
#658
configure: checking Python module versions gives misleading chatter
Feb 21 – Jun 30
- open
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  normal
#958
ch-image: different workflows give different permissions on unpack
Jan 13 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#972
test suite: exercise images with slash in name better
Jan 26 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#981
ch-tar2dir: top-level directory same as something in the 2nd level fails
Feb 9 – Jun 30
- open
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  normal
#1267
update pedantic mode
Jan 13 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1297
test absolute link target repair
Mar 3 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1302
FROM: show progress even if nothing needs to be pulled
Mar 10 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
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#1325
ch-convert: detect tarbombs without reading entire archive
Mar 28 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1338
“ch-image gestalt --help” is badly formatted
May 16 – Jun 30
- open
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#1525
packaging/fedora/build: remove “ch-run --home”
Dec 22 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#1533
ARG, ENV, and LABEL parsing does not remove quotes from key names when storing in metadata
Jan 11 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#725
Restore test of one top-level directory and no hidden files
Apr 21 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#729
ch-image build: comments within multi-line commands break parsing
Apr 30 – Jun 30
- open
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#771
ch-image build: add explicit commit
Jun 16 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1134
test that cleaning works
Jul 27 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1135
progress meters for packing and unpacking
Jul 27 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1149
make Charliecloud work with Slurm 21.08 container support
Aug 11 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1161
SquashFS: don't unmount until all descendants are done
Aug 25 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1340
test that ENV overrides ARG of the same name
May 16 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1346
validate metadata flow in multi-stage build
May 17 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1347
ARG foo="bar" parsed as word, not quoted string
May 17 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1350
test force-auto with build cache enabled
May 17 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1397
ch-image: add option to access manifest via cli
Jul 2 – Jun 30
- open
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#1545
Fail faster for registry push with non-constant password
Jan 24 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#1556
mksquashfs parallel processing is uncontrolled
Feb 10 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#777
ch-image build: support .dockerignore
Jun 22 – Jun 30
- open
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#1183
“ch-image pull docker.io/...” fails
Sep 28 – Jun 30
- open
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#1198
ch-convert: eliminate needless compress/uncompress operations
Oct 14 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#1199
ch-convert: improve command line parsing
Oct 14 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#1404
ch-run --join: support LSF
Jul 8 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1436
ch-run --join: fails with short-lived processes
Aug 25 – Jun 30
- open
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#1444
better Git build cache tuning
Sep 8 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1456
build cache: optimize WORKDIR
Sep 23 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#1457
build cache: optimize COPY
Sep 23 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#1582
implement --target for ch-image multistage builds
Feb 28 – Jun 30
- open
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#1598
ch-image build: add options to convert immediately after successful build
Mar 16 – Jun 30
- open
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#1604
Flux: ch-run: non-default binds required
Mar 20 – Jun 30
- open
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#785
ch-image build: COPY: support escaping special characters in filenames
Jun 22 – Jun 30
- open
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#1634
auto generate command line options for bash completion
Apr 14 – Jun 30
- open
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  normal
#1635
extend ch-completion to other shells
Apr 14 – Jun 30
- open
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  eventually
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  normal
#1639
ch-completion: handle =
Apr 18 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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  normal
#1641
ch-completion: --bind for ch-image
Apr 19 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#837
ch-image list: show relationships between images
Aug 27 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
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  normal
#1673
test for curly quotes
Jun 7 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
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  normal
#1680
ch-test: can’t run multiples test suites in parallel
Jun 8 – Jun 30
- open
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  normal
- !1933 test suite III
#100
pre-built binaries
Jan 25 – Jun 30
- open
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#222
shell scripts: style: properly declare/scope variables
Aug 10 – Jun 30
- open
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#451
refactor scripts to use error function
May 23 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#873
ch-image: copy images in opaque storage
Oct 13 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#1531
make COPY and RSYNC sensitive to special directories
Jan 5 – Jun 30
- open
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#1238
examples/rstudio: actually test an R computation in RStudio
Nov 16, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- blocked
- urg
  
  eventually
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  normal
#1625
remove SC2030 and SC2031 excludes when Shellcheck bug(s) fixed
Apr 4, 2023 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
- urg
  
  eventually
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  normal
#1767
dnf --installroot: fails if storage directory on NFS
Nov 2, 2023 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
- urg
  
  eventually
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  normal
#1865
tidy global variables
Mar 20, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
- urg
  
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  normal
#1866
add docstrings
Mar 20, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
- urg
  
  eventually
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  normal
#1868
Pylint: check line length
Mar 20, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
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  eventually
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  normal
#1869
Pylint: enforce parenthesis style
Mar 20, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
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  normal
#1871
Pylint: false positives on member existence for internal classes
Mar 22, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
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  normal
#1872
tidy cyclic imports
Mar 22, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
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  normal
#1873
tidy overly complex code
Mar 22, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
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#1874
tidy: codify “unnecessary else” policy
Mar 22, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
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#1876
tidy: enforce list() and dict()
Mar 22, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
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  eventually
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#1877
tidy: fix W0221 arguments-differ
Mar 22, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
- urg
  
  eventually
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  normal
#1878
tidy: misc.Action_Exit: figure out and fix __call__()
Mar 22, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
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  eventually
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#1879
tidy: prohibit FIXME without an issue number
Mar 22, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
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  eventually
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#1881
tidy: enforce abstract methods have ellipsis body
Mar 22, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
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#1997
CI/CD: migrate variables to inputs
May 12 – Sep 11, 2025
- blocked
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  eventually
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#1880
tidy: fix open() encoding
Mar 22 – Jun 30
- blocked
- urg
  
  eventually
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#1159
squash: rm ll.h workaround for SquashFUSE header collisions
Aug 24 – Jul 1
- blocked
- urg
  
  eventually
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  normal
#176
ch-image build: more metadata in built images
Jun 7, 2018 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
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  normal
#588
add Rstudio Server demo/example
Dec 2, 2019 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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  normal
#603
build: "make installcheck" passes
Dec 20, 2019 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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#604
build: "make distcheck" passes
Dec 20, 2019 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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#775
ch-image build: variable substitution: do it recursively
Jun 22, 2020 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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#782
ch-image build: support ADD
Jun 22, 2020 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
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#932
test whiteouts
Dec 18, 2020 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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#1093
`ch-image`: TTY colors are light-background unfriendly
Jun 11, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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#1120
be smarter about in-container SSH authentication
Jul 7, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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#1146
charliecloud.mkdirs: change to two arguments
Aug 9, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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  normal
#1177
Microsoft SQL Server example
Sep 15, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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  normal
#1197
ch-convert: more progress meters
Oct 14, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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#1201
`ch-convert`: color output
Oct 14, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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#1202
ch-image: append :latest if no tag given
Oct 14, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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#1211
ch-convert: does not validate output extensions
Oct 21, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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#1310
ch-convert: turns hard links into multiple files
Mar 17, 2022 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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#1343
remove build cache encouragement note
May 16, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#1353
ch-image pull: add -o to output in the given directory, bypassing storage dir
May 26, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#1359
ch-image: use previously prepared files
Jun 1, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#1487
turn ch.Timer() into a context manager?
Nov 14, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#1488
future Git config changes?
Nov 14, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#1491
subsystem-specific TRACE
Nov 14, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#1521
more RPM-related build bugs?
Dec 22, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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#1522
Dockerfile.openmpi: remove --disable-pty-support
Dec 22, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#1564
configure: remove --with-seccomp
Feb 17, 2023 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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- !2020 ePiC WiNNiNg: Root emulation with libpseudo
#1630
replace intel mpi benchmark with OSU?
Apr 13, 2023 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#1688
Leave a breadcrumb about the state of the container at last pull
Jun 13, 2023 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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#1690
ch-run: hold onto warnings in child process
Jun 23, 2023 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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#1912
packaging: squashfuse < 0.1.105 in all epel branches
Jul 16, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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  normal
#1934
test suite fails if locale en_US.utf8 not installed
Oct 25, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#1952
internet-reachout workflow debugging improvements
Dec 3, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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  normal
#1953
restore “ch-image --arch=yolo pull” test
Dec 12, 2024 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#1973
require C11 or C17
Feb 1 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
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  normal
#2011
record current commit in /ch
Jun 18 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  normal
#2007
fix RPM builds
Jun 11 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  normal
#2017
all RUN happens in the same container
Jun 25 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#2021
CDI: figure out how to deal with it at build time
Jun 25 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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#2030
use squashfs-tools-ng if available
Jul 7 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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#2041
intermittent CI failure pulling from nvcr.io
Aug 5 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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#716
ch-pull: explore downloading image layers in parallel
Apr 15 – Apr 28
- uncertain
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  eventually
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imp

minor

#1896
ch-run -W: make tmpfs mount point configurable and/or dynamic
Apr 19 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#597
configure: respect --htmldir
Dec 20 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#901
ch-image pull: validate it works with Amazon public registry
Nov 9 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#902
ch-image pull: validate it works with Azure registries
Nov 9 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#1253
configure: report if libsquashfuse is too old
Dec 3 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#1473
ch-run: default binds: potential issue(s) with Cray PE images.
Oct 18 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#687
test/docs-sane: check documentation after install too
Mar 6 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#1330
support multiple authenticated registries in one build
Apr 13 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#1519
--force warns erroneously if fakerooted instructions are cache hits
Dec 22 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
- !2020 ePiC WiNNiNg: Root emulation with libpseudo
#1038
ch-image: test existing mount points that are symlinks
Apr 22 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#1068
color codes in Dockerfile crash build
May 13 – Jun 30
- open
- reidpr
- urg
  
  eventually
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  minor
#774
ch-image build: variable substitution: support ${foo:-bar} and ${foo:+bar} for all instructions
Jun 22 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#1167
ch-image build: name inference ignores colon
Sep 13 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#783
ch-image build: support COPY from arbitrary image by name
Jun 22 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#787
ch-image build: ARG: pre-define “platform ARGs”
Jun 22 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#54
Spark tests have race conditions
Oct 27 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#399
tighten up "reproducible" language in docs
Mar 22 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#527
reference MEJ's Container Mythbusters talk in docs
Aug 22 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  eventually
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  minor
#657
configure: do the right thing if --with-python doesn't exist
Feb 21, 2020 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
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  minor
#1011
out of disk space errors
Mar 22, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#1056
ch-image build WORKDIR: can't create directory if in bind-mount
May 11, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#1100
arch-aware pull doesn’t work for gcr.io
Jun 24, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#1217
split runtime and ch-image and glue LOC
Oct 26, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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  minor
#1278
autoreconf warning (as error) in autogen.sh
Feb 2, 2022 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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  minor
#1427
Cache container copy for most recent build
Aug 10, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
- imp
  
  minor
#1540
ch-test: separate srun mpi options for openmpi and mpich
Jan 18, 2023 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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  minor
#1957
make --private-tmp size/path configurable
Jan 31 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  eventually
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  minor
#1959
retry on HTTP 5xx
Jan 31 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  minor
#2003
Charliecloud TUI
May 20 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
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  minor

urg

deferred

imp

important

#1420
add EROFS support
Aug 2, 2022 – Sep 11, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
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- imp
  
  important

imp

normal

#1203
ch-image: new subcommand export
Oct 14 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
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#1126
docutils ≥ 0.17 breaks lists
Jul 21, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- blocked
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  deferred
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  normal
#1179
strip setcap on push and pull
Sep 15, 2021 – Sep 10, 2025
- blocked
- urg
  
  deferred
- imp
  
  normal
#262
new script ch-validate to validate an unpacked image
Oct 4, 2018 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  deferred
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#830
ch-run-oci: Why does it have image_fixup()
Aug 21, 2020 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
- urg
  
  deferred
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  normal
#944
provide RPMs on GitHub releases?
Dec 23, 2020 – Sep 10, 2025
- uncertain
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  deferred
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  normal

imp

minor

#1250
images based on charliecloud/metadata image fail to build with Docker
Dec 1 – Jun 30
- open
- urg
  
  deferred
- imp
  
  minor
#711
ch-test: add charliecloud-test package to el8
Apr 7 – Jun 30
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