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SciPy 2013 was a great success.  I didn't get good headcount at the 
matplotlib BOF, but it was a good number, and we had 15 participants at 
various points during the sprints.  It was nice to see the diversity of 
experience with matplotlib at the sprints, and I hope we oldtimers were 
helpful to the newtimers getting started so they can continue to 
contribute in the future.  It was also great to put some faces to many 
of the talented names I've been seeing on github and the mailing list 
lately.

I've summarized the matplotlib BOF as well as the sprint.  I've also 
gone ahead and created MEP placeholders and issues for the major themes 
discussed.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Scipy-2013-BOF-Notes

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Scipy-2013-sprinting-notes

Both of these documents are based on the realtime etherpad notes we made 
during the sessions, and on some of my own recollection, which is known 
to be incomplete or incorrect on occasion.  If I missed something, or 
you feel something isn't expressed in the right light, feel free to edit 
the wiki, but we should keep further discussion on the mailing list, 
github issues or other channels.  It would also be great to have 
volunteers to help write a MEP or two based on the BOF discussion.

Thanks again.  It was really nice to meet all of you!

Mike

On 1 July 2013 16:09, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

> Everyone else: Are there any other changes you think we should make before
> we put this out?


We also started preparing a second user survey for IPython, but we haven't
yet launched it. I think our questions are broadly similar to yours, but if
you're interested, you can see our planned survey here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHF2WmlKdTZTRlZVRGFGTDgtUXFBVUE6MQ#gid=0

Thomas

I would suggest clarifying the "how do you use matplotlib" question, or
perhaps refocusing it.

Cheers!
Ben Root


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

>  Last year, Paul wrote a survey for matplotlib so we could collect data on
> which versions of dependencies are being used, as well as to collect other
> data.
>
> You can see it here: survey<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHpQS25pcTZIRWdqX0pNckNSU01sMHc6MQ>
>
> We dropped the ball on actually advertising this survey and getting some
> results, but I agree that we should do this.  Looking at it now, it's a
> little out of date in places (version of Python available, we should add
> Anaconda as options, etc.), but fundamentally I still think is very good.
>
> Paul: Can you give me edit permissions so I can update it?
>
> Everyone else: Are there any other changes you think we should make before
> we put this out?
>
> I think this, given enough responses, could be very helpful in determining
> our dependencies going forward, in addition to what I'm proposing in issue
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/2191.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
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Last year, Paul wrote a survey for matplotlib so we could collect data 
on which versions of dependencies are being used, as well as to collect 
other data.

You can see it here:survey 
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHpQS25pcTZIRWdqX0pNckNSU01sMHc6MQ>

We dropped the ball on actually advertising this survey and getting some 
results, but I agree that we should do this.  Looking at it now, it's a 
little out of date in places (version of Python available, we should add 
Anaconda as options, etc.), but fundamentally I still think is very good.

Paul: Can you give me edit permissions so I can update it?

Everyone else: Are there any other changes you think we should make 
before we put this out?

I think this, given enough responses, could be very helpful in 
determining our dependencies going forward, in addition to what I'm 
proposing in issue https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/2191.

Cheers,
Mike

I've created https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/2187 for this.

On 07/01/2013 07:43 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>> Make sure you do a make.py first and a git clean -fxd. I get these errors
>> whenever a file is moved around.
> I'm building from 1.3.0rc4 tarball, so no git on the way and make.py
> exists, else it would have failed calling it, not accessing a
> mpl_examples sub-file; the doc/mpl_examples path doesn't exists (dunno
> if it has to be a symlinks or what).
>
> Cheers,
> --
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On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> Make sure you do a make.py first and a git clean -fxd. I get these errors
> whenever a file is moved around.

I'm building from 1.3.0rc4 tarball, so no git on the way and make.py
exists, else it would have failed calling it, not accessing a
mpl_examples sub-file; the doc/mpl_examples path doesn't exists (dunno
if it has to be a symlinks or what).

Cheers,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi

Make sure you do a make.py first and a git clean -fxd. I get these errors
whenever a file is moved around.

Ben Root
On Jun 30, 2013 6:09 PM, "Sandro Tosi" <san...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm preparing the Debian package for matplotlib 1.3.0rc4 but I got a
> failure while building documentation, here's the extract from the
> build log:
>
> ...
> # build the doc
> ( cd doc ; MPLCONFIGDIR=. MATPLOTLIBDATA=../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/ \
> PYTHONPATH=../build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7 ./make.py --small all )
> Running Sphinx v1.1.3
> Initializing GitHub plugin
> loading pickled environment... not yet created
> [autosummary] generating autosummary for: api/afm_api.rst,
> api/animation_api.rst, api/api_changes.rst, api/artist_api.rst,
> api/axes_api.rst, api/axis_api.rst, api/backend_bases_api.rst,
> api/backend_gtkagg_api.rst, api/backend_pdf_api.rst,
> api/backend_qt4agg_api.rst, ..., users/pyplot_tutorial.rst,
> users/recipes.rst, users/screenshots.rst, users/shell.rst,
> users/text_intro.rst, users/text_props.rst,
> users/tight_layout_guide.rst, users/transforms_tutorial.rst,
> users/usetex.rst, users/whats_new.rst
>
> building [html]: targets for 111 source files that are out of date
> updating environment: 112 added, 0 changed, 0 removed
> reading sources... [  0%] api/afm_api
> reading sources... [  1%] api/animation_api
> reading sources... [  2%] api/api_changes
> reading sources... [  3%] api/artist_api
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpydoc/docscrape.py:117:
> UserWarning: Unknown section Accepts:
>   warn("Unknown section %s" % key)
>
> Exception occurred:
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/docutils/parsers/rst/states.py",
> line 195, in run
>     results = StateMachineWS.run(self, input_lines, input_offset)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/docutils/statemachine.py", line 237,
> in run
>     context, state, transitions)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/docutils/statemachine.py", line
> 458, in check_line
>     return method(match, context, next_state)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/docutils/parsers/rst/states.py",
> line 2283, in explicit_markup
>     nodelist, blank_finish = self.explicit_construct(match)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/docutils/parsers/rst/states.py",
> line 2295, in explicit_construct
>     return method(self, expmatch)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/docutils/parsers/rst/states.py",
> line 2036, in directive
>     directive_class, match, type_name, option_presets)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/docutils/parsers/rst/states.py",
> line 2087, in run_directive
>     result = directive_instance.run()
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/docutils/parsers/rst/__init__.py",
> line 382, in run
>     self.state, self.state_machine)
>   File
> "/home/morph/deb/build-area/matplotlib-1.3.0~rc4/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py",
> line 228, in plot_directive
>     return run(arguments, content, options, state_machine, state, lineno)
>   File
> "/home/morph/deb/build-area/matplotlib-1.3.0~rc4/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py",
> line 670, in run
>     with open(source_file_name, 'r') as fd:
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>
> u'/home/morph/deb/build-area/matplotlib-1.3.0~rc4/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/fancyarrow_demo.py'
> The full traceback has been saved in /tmp/sphinx-err-BQFK5w.log, if
> you want to report the issue to the developers.
> Please also report this if it was a user error, so that a better error
> message can be provided next time.
> Either send bugs to the mailing list at
> <http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev/>,
> or report them in the tracker at
> <http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issues/>. Thanks!
> Building HTML failed.
> ..
>
> and attached is the mentioned file.
>
> Please let me know if you want me to test something to have that fixed.
>
> Regards,
> --
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