[tracking] Header Parsing

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by reading the related samtools/samtools#481 issue and the surrounding discussion to determine what header-parsing support is required. The issue does not name files, tests, or an acceptance condition, so the work is not ready to begin from this report alone.

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Description

A tracking bug for header parsing support.
See also samtools/samtools#481

Dominant language
C
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Forks
475
Avg merge
3d 13h
Merged PRs (30d)
11

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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