Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-12 Thread Marcel Oliver
Tony Yu writes: MEP 12 outlines the reorganization of the example gallery and subsequent clean up of the examples: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/MEP12 Dear all, thanks for this initiative. As a user who has done a fair amount of tweaking for

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-12 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 12/11/2012 07:16 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: On 11 December 2012 23:07, Tony Yu tsy...@gmail.com mailto:tsy...@gmail.com wrote: You suggest keeping the old examples around in some dark corner. Is there some advantage you envision for doing this? I'd just as soon remove

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-12 Thread Paul Hobson
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/clippath_demo.html It's perfectly reasonable code, but seems strange that it's clipped off to the corner which I think makes it less useful as an example. If I understand

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-12 Thread Marcel Oliver
Paul Hobson writes: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/clippath_demo.html It's perfectly reasonable code, but seems strange that it's clipped off to the corner which I think makes it less useful

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-11 Thread Phil Elson
I'm not sure if non-core-developers are allowed to post MEPs, but I just did Yes please... The more the merrier! Aren't you a core dev anyway Tony? :-) You've certainly contributed some really valuable features, and even if you don't have access to the big green button in my eyes you feedback

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-11 Thread Nicolas Rougier
Thanks a lot for this MEP and I would gladly contribute to the new gallery. From my own experience with the current gallery, I would recommend to have simple scripts that illustrate one feature only, it make things more clear IMHO. From my attempt at making some alternative gallery

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-11 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 12/10/2012 05:18 PM, Tony Yu wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure if non-core-developers are allowed to post MEPs, but I just did ;). It's a big tent. Come on in! BTW -- if you want to have access to the big green merge button, let me know. You've certainly been working on matplotlib long

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-11 Thread Tony Yu
Hi Michael, Thanks for reading the MEP! Responses below: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: On 12/10/2012 05:18 PM, Tony Yu wrote: snip MEP 12 outlines the reorganization of the example gallery and subsequent clean up of the examples:

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-11 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 11 December 2012 23:07, Tony Yu tsy...@gmail.com wrote: You suggest keeping the old examples around in some dark corner. Is there some advantage you envision for doing this? I'd just as soon remove them. Note that the documentation on the website is now versioned, so the examples that

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-11 Thread Tony Yu
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Nicolas Rougier nicolas.roug...@inria.frwrote: Thanks a lot for this MEP and I would gladly contribute to the new gallery. Thanks for adding the link to your gallery. I meant to include it (that's where I got the idea for a showcase section) but it slipped

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-11 Thread Tony Yu
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Phil Elson pelson@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if non-core-developers are allowed to post MEPs, but I just did Yes please... The more the merrier! Aren't you a core dev anyway Tony? :-) You've certainly contributed some really valuable features, and

[matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-10 Thread Tony Yu
Hi all, I'm not sure if non-core-developers are allowed to post MEPs, but I just did ;). MEP 12 outlines the reorganization of the example gallery and subsequent clean up of the examples: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/MEP12 In my opinion, there are two open questions in the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-10 Thread Chao YUE
The gallry will not include everything, could we also have somewhere to let non-core users freely share the code? like some features that are nice to have but not easily found in the galery? but hope this will not lead to overcrowded. Chao On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Tony Yu

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-10 Thread Tony Yu
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Chao YUE chaoyue...@gmail.com wrote: The gallry will not include everything, could we also have somewhere to let non-core users freely share the code? like some features that are nice to have but not easily found in the galery? but hope this will not lead to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-10 Thread Paul Hobson
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Tony Yu tsy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure if non-core-developers are allowed to post MEPs, but I just did ;). MEP 12 outlines the reorganization of the example gallery and subsequent clean up of the examples:

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP12: Reorganize example gallery and clean up examples

2012-12-10 Thread Chao YUE
thanks Tony. I didn't know this before. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Chao YUE chaoyue...@gmail.com wrote: The gallry will not include everything, could we also have somewhere to let non-core users freely share the code? like some features that are nice to have but not easily found in the