Re: [matplotlib-devel] New plot type idea -- EventRaster

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Paul Ivanov <piv...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
>> On 11/11/2012 11:51 PM, Todd wrote:
>>> Now that 1.2 is out, can we revisit this?  I would like to get it
>>> implemented for the next feature release.
>>>
>>
>> Absolutely.  I think the next step, once you have an implementation,
>> would be to submit a pull request and we can all help with a review.
>
> This hasn't been mentioned yet, but Todd will hopefully find our
> developer docs useful:
> http://matplotlib.org/devel/index.html
>
> In particular, there's a section on writing a new pyplot function:
> http://matplotlib.org/devel/coding_guide.html#writing-a-new-pyplot-function

Thanks for that, Paul.

Todd, there's also a section on writing tests for matplotlib on the
page Paul pointed out. For a new feature there should be a couple of
tests to go with it to make sure everything passes sanity checks.

Thanks for spending your time contributing!

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