Awesome, many thanks for the detailed instructions, as well as for the valuable suggestions by Eric and Jens. I have now created a pull request containing the proposed change, including the suggested modifications:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1442 Any comments/feedback would be much appreciated. Best wishes, Max 2012/10/31 Damon McDougall <damon.mcdoug...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Maximilian Albert > <maximilian.alb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Damon, >> >> many thanks for the quick (and positive :)) reply, >> >>> Sounds like a great idea! Would you feel comfortable having a go at an >>> implementation? You can make a pull request out of it. The rest of the >>> developers can then deliberate and provide feedback for you. >> >> I attached a patch to my previous email which contains an >> implementation, but perhaps it didn't make it through to the list? But >> since I had to clone the git repository anyway to implement it, I'm >> happy to make a pull request, too. I'll have to find out how to do >> that since I've never done it before, but I guess it can't be too >> difficult. Will give it a shot later today. > > You need to fork the main matplotlib repo, so you have your own copy > associated with your github account: > https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo > > Once you've forked it, clone it and create a branch: > > git clone my-forked-repo-url > cd matplotlib > git checkout -b my_awesome_new_feature > # ... hack hack hack ... > git commit -am "Useful commit message here" > git push origin my_awesome_new_feature > > Once you've done that, make a pull request by following the > instructions here: > https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests > > Once you've done that, congratulations! > > Hope this helps. > Best wishes, > Damon > > -- > Damon McDougall > http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com > B2.39 > Mathematics Institute > University of Warwick > Coventry > West Midlands > CV4 7AL > United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
