Dear Sebastian, I agree with your impression. I made a pull request for some axis functionality (logit scales) and the PR got lost. I am convinced that:
1. working on things like axes, ticker, scales, locators would be a lot easier with a little refactoring of the code 2. with a more modular codebase, my PR would be accepted by now, instead of living in limbo waiting to be forgotten. So I am in general in favour of your proposal. See also: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/3753 Cheers, Fabio PS: if Thomas or anybody else is still willing to accept my PR itself, I'd be in favour too. But please do not make me rebase another 3 times before that ;-) On 02/16/2015 11:42 AM, Sebastian Werhausen wrote: > I'm a newcomer to the MPL code, and getting an overview is not easy. > Especially the API part of the documentation [1] has a lot of room for > improvement. The functionality of the MPL sources seems to be > scattered quite loosely among the sources and their structure is > directly mirrored in the doc. Some observations: > > 1. Many functions like quiver() or bar() are in multiple places > (pyplot and axes) > 2. Some entries (like axes) are enormous, making them very hard to use > to get an overview > 3. The API start page is just a lose list of classes, without > indication what's inside > > Ideally I feel like the code itself should be organized in smaller > chunks, but that's probably unrealistic. A quick improvement for 2. > could be to add a "table of contents" at the top of every class > documentation. For axes, that could work like [2] and look like [3]. > Thoughts? I wanted to test the waters before making pull requests. > > Another way could be to organize the documentation not by classes, but > by functionality. The Numpy docs [4] seem much more usable in that > regard. That'll be less automatic of course but could help with > observation 3. > > I've also found the Mep10 [5] on the Wiki with many good ideas, but > not sure if that lead somewhere. > > Sebastian > > > [1] http://matplotlib.org/api/index.html > [2] > https://github.com/s9w/matplotlib/commit/053179c9491637609775e21855f21e977580a0a1 > [3] http://i.imgur.com/d1uTjfS.png > [4] http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/ > [5] https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Mep10 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel >
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