Re: [matplotlib-devel] Release schedule for version 1.0.1?

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>
> > Just as a quick question that I would like to throw out.  It isn't a bug,
> > but rather an aesthetics issue that I caused for the version 1.0 release.
> >
> > With allowing 3d plots to be made subplottable, the margins for the plot
> > area became a lot smaller than for the original method of producing 3d
> > plots.  This is because of the default region for subaxes, which usually
> > matches the plotting region for a normal plot.  However, 3d plots have
> been
> > explicitly setting the viewing area to take up the entire axes rather
> than
> > obeying the rcParams.  With subplotting (or even creating a single plot
> > using fig.gca() ), the rcParams override the explicit setting of the plot
> > area.  Therefore, 3d plots appear "squished" if created using the
> > projection='3d' approach.
> >
> > My question is this: Would it at all be feasible (or even desirable) to
> have
> > some sort of ability to specify defaults that are specific to a
> particular
> > axes type?  Currently, the code for setting the parameters will grab the
> > rcparams if the figure is being newly created, or will copy the
> parameters
> > from an existing figure in the case of creating subplots in an existing
> > figure.  This assumes a one-size-fits-all which 3d plots might need to be
> an
> > exception.
>
> Punting on the larger question.... others may have an opinion.
>
> If it is a feature not a bug, can you commit new baseline images for
> the buildbot and see if we can get it to go green?
>
> JDH
>

The current test failures appear to be related to changes made to
pcolormesh, and nothing to do with mplot3d.  As for the mplot3d images, the
documentation images were updated, and I think I updated all of the code and
documentation.  I don't think the test suite checks those, does it?  Oddly
enough, I can't seem to find any test code for mplot3d (looks like another
item to add onto my todo list...).

Ben Root