Re: [matplotlib-devel] Upcoming Debian stable release and matplotlib new release(s)

2010-05-29 Thread Malte Dik
Hi, > > 2) If I understand correctly, a key question is who will have commit > rights to the master repo on github. It seems that an exception is > required to allow that access to more than one person. My sense is that > ideally we should have more than one person with that access, but far > fe

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Upcoming Debian stable releaseand matplotlib new release(s)

2010-05-29 Thread Andrew Straw
On Sat, 29 May 2010 12:28:40 -1000, Eric Firing wrote: > 3) Is it really a good idea to delay the release until the we make the > github transition? Given how long it has been since a release, and the > possibility that there will be some turbulence until we have had some > experience with githu

Re: [matplotlib-devel] QuadMesh zorder

2010-05-29 Thread Eric Firing
On 05/28/2010 10:00 AM, Ryan May wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Root gave me a bug report that pcolormesh (and hence QuadMesh) > were not respecting zorder. This turns out to be due to the fact that > kwargs are not being forwarded on as appropriate. This is easy enough > to fix and make work, but I wanted

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Upcoming Debian stable release and matplotlib new release(s)

2010-05-29 Thread Eric Firing
On 04/23/2010 02:44 AM, John Hunter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Hello all, >> in some time (let's say a couple of months, maybe more) Debian will >> enter the "freeze" period, where no new upstream releases are >> accepted, in order to prepare the best stable re

Re: [matplotlib-devel] get_sample_data and transitioning to git

2010-05-29 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
John Hunter writes: >> Has it been decided where the master repository would be hosted? The >> current code seems to handle at least github just fine if you just >> replace the base URL in cbook.py: > > We've been planning on using github. I'm surprised the existing code > works -- have you test

[matplotlib-devel] get_sample_data and transitioning to git

2010-05-29 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
A while ago, John Hunter wrote: > We'd like to transition our VCS to git, and this impacts our release > schedule because of the "get_sample_data" support in the trunk which > currently pulls the data from svn but would have to be refactored to > pull from [git] and we'd like to make the transitio