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Next-generation file format (NGFF) specifications for storing bioimaging data in the cloud.

Is ome/ngff-spec beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to ome/ngff-spec to say how often they are merged. 5 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Python
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Last GitHub push
Sep 29, 2026
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Sep 19, 2026
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  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
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  • [Issue]: clarify ambiguous language for the plae acquisition start and end times
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    ome/ngff-spec#215 · 1 comment ·

  • breakdown chapters of the spec into different files?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ome/ngff-spec#213 ·

  • test_validation misses examples; the tests would fail otherwise
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ome/ngff-spec#212 · 1 comment ·

  • [Issue]: remove or qualify reference to in-memory array layout
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

    ome/ngff-spec#200 ·

  • lint/validate JSONs in the repository
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    Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 67/100

    ome/ngff-spec#194 · 1 reaction ·

  • Format object definitions as tables
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ome/ngff-spec#191 ·

  • [Issue]: Tag previous versions
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    ome/ngff-spec#187 · 3 comments ·

  • Reorder spec sections so the direct readability is improved
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ome/ngff-spec#184 ·

  • Build system cleanup
    May be free again Open
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ome/ngff-spec#182 ·

  • markdown issues in 0.5 and dev
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    ome/ngff-spec#177 · 1 comment ·

  • [Issue]: Dataset transforms unclear about being a list or object
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

    ome/ngff-spec#168 · 1 comment ·

  • [Issue]: Relax connectedness constraint for Scene transformation graph
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    ome/ngff-spec#155 · 9 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • [Issue]: Versioning conformance tests
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    ome/ngff-spec#147 · 3 comments ·

  • fix dates in the bikeshed version of old specs
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    ome/ngff-spec#143 ·

  • Remove or reduce "invalid" conformance test cases
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ome/ngff-spec#139 ·

  • Remove "strict" jsonschemas and test cases
    May be free again Open
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    ome/ngff-spec#138 ·

  • Pre-commit hooks for enforcing formatting
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ome/ngff-spec#123 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Automatically blocking PRs depending on the type of change
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ome/ngff-spec#122 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Consider using towncrier for improving changelogs on this repository
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    infra

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

    ome/ngff-spec#98 · 4 comments ·

  • Consider the scope/need of "issues" on this repository
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ome/ngff-spec#78 · 1 comment ·

  • Links to version schema broken
    May be free again Open
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ome/ngff-spec#69 · 3 comments ·

  • Render schemas in separate folder to schema sources
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ome/ngff-spec#68 · 1 comment ·

  • Replace links to ngff-spec.readthedocs
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    documentation

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

    ome/ngff-spec#59 ·

  • Add developer docs with steps to build the docs locally
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    ome/ngff-spec#48 · 8 comments · 1 reaction ·

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