[matplotlib-devel] developer policy question

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

I am currently working to patch something in colors.py and I am coming
across a lot of older style code and code that duplicates functionality that
can be found in cbook.py (particularly the type-checking functions).  Is
there a standing rule that code that we come across should get updated or
adapted to use the functions in cbook.py?

Or is it the other way around and that we should be avoiding cbook.py?

Thanks,
Ben Root