HDFGroup/hdf-compass

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Python-based viewer for HDF5 and other HDF5-like file formats

Is HDFGroup/hdf-compass beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to HDFGroup/hdf-compass to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
39
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Python
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Last GitHub push
May 17, 2023
Latest indexed
Sep 14, 2026
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  • Flatpak
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#214 ·

  • Support viewing of greyscale images
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#209 ·

  • HDFCompass file association and launch behaviour
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#208 ·

  • View int8 and uin8 Data as binary string or encoded string
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#207 ·

  • H5T_NATIVE_B8 dataset shows up empty
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#206 ·

  • Bug: unsafe import
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#205 · 1 comment ·

  • Bug: undefined variable
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#204 · 2 comments ·

  • Dark themes make labels invisible
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#203 · 1 reaction ·

  • Error when opening a HDF5 Dataset with np.ndarray
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#202 · 1 comment ·

  • request for retina support please
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#198 ·

  • Provide Plot with X-Axis Taken from a Table Column
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#194 · 5 comments ·

  • New Tag/Release
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#187 · 19 comments ·

  • Python 3 branch
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#186 · 11 comments ·

  • Simplify Window management
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#183 ·

  • Warnings in sphinx generated manpage
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#171 ·

  • 0.7.0 release target
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    release milestones

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#168 · 6 comments ·

  • Provide Window's Installer
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#164 · 4 comments ·

  • Handling of multiple available plugins
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#132 · 15 comments ·

  • Possibly disabling the plot for a compound type dataset
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#103 · 1 comment ·

  • Improve support for HDF5 data types
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement HDF5

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#102 ·

  • compass doesn't display enum_type value as HDF5 indicates
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug HDF5

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#97 · 2 comments ·

  • Some HDF5 variable length data are missing
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug HDF5

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#96 · 2 comments ·

  • Cannot view the member datatype of a simple non-nested compound datatype
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#89 · 1 comment ·

  • No data displayed and plot data crashed compass when viewing and ploting a compound data type file
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug HDF5

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#88 · 2 comments ·

  • External/Soft links don't display as links
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug HDF5

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#77 · 1 comment ·

  • Provide User Guide
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    docs enhancement

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#76 · 3 comments ·

  • Display info for Committed Types
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement HDF5

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#75 ·

  • Better support for attribute display
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#72 · 1 comment ·

  • Create Test Plan Document
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    docs

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#71 · 11 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • OPeNDAP plug-in issues
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug OPeNDAP

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#60 · 50 comments ·

  • Committed type objects show up as attributes
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#43 · 1 comment ·

  • Add a graph view of the object structure
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#26 · 13 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Improve the display of linked datatypes
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#25 · 1 assignee ·

  • 'Drag & drop' doesn't work
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#24 · 8 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Better support for viewing HDF5 Images
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#23 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Display element index value
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#20 · 1 comment ·

  • Bad cell selection for 1D datasets
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#18 ·

  • Sign built applications
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#16 ·

  • Add default context menu for Frame
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    enhancement

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

    HDFGroup/hdf-compass#12 ·

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