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Is HDFGroup/hdf4 beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to HDFGroup/hdf4 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.

Stars
22
Forks
27
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
10
Dominant language
C
License
No license data
Last GitHub push
Sep 4, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 14, 2026
No contributing guide
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
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No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to HDFGroup/hdf4

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.
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  • hdp dumpsds exits 0 after a failed read, silently producing a truncated dump
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    HDFGroup/hdf4#925 · 1 assignee ·

  • Make sure hdp commands list options correctly
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Component - Documentation

    HDFGroup/hdf4#858 · 1 assignee ·

  • SDsetblocksize doesn't change block size in the file
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Component - Documentation

    HDFGroup/hdf4#856 · 1 assignee ·

  • SDwritedata cannot change data of a compressed SDS after SDreaddata
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Component - Documentation

    HDFGroup/hdf4#855 · 1 assignee ·

  • Add documentation and example to hdfimport for creating a 2D dataset
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Component - Documentation

    HDFGroup/hdf4#854 · 1 assignee ·

  • hdp dumpvd prints wrong output for NO_INTERLACE storage
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    HDFGroup/hdf4#852 · 1 assignee ·

  • type definition for tags / refs not consistent
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Component - Documentation

    HDFGroup/hdf4#850 · 1 assignee ·

  • Possible problems with Vattrinfo2
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    Component - C Library Priority - 2. Medium ⏹ Type - Bug UNCONFIRMED

    HDFGroup/hdf4#340 · 20 comments · 1 reaction · 2 assignees ·

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