[matplotlib-devel] In Memoriam, John D. Hunter III: 1968-2012

2013-07-01 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, after John's untimely passing we had a memorial service in Chicago, but only a few on these lists were able to attend. At last week's scipy conference I read a slightly edited version of the eulogy from that memorial service, and I figured some of you might be interested if you missed the

[matplotlib-devel] Reports from SciPy 2013

2013-07-01 Thread Michael Droettboom
SciPy 2013 was a great success. I didn't get good headcount at the matplotlib BOF, but it was a good number, and we had 15 participants at various points during the sprints. It was nice to see the diversity of experience with matplotlib at the sprints, and I hope we oldtimers were helpful to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Reviving the matplotlib survey

2013-07-01 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 1 July 2013 16:09, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Everyone else: Are there any other changes you think we should make before > we put this out? We also started preparing a second user survey for IPython, but we haven't yet launched it. I think our questions are broadly similar to yours, but if

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Reviving the matplotlib survey

2013-07-01 Thread Benjamin Root
I would suggest clarifying the "how do you use matplotlib" question, or perhaps refocusing it. Cheers! Ben Root On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Last year, Paul wrote a survey for matplotlib so we could collect data on > which versions of dependencies are being use

[matplotlib-devel] Reviving the matplotlib survey

2013-07-01 Thread Michael Droettboom
Last year, Paul wrote a survey for matplotlib so we could collect data on which versions of dependencies are being used, as well as to collect other data. You can see it here:survey We dropped the ball

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Error building documentation for 1.3.0rc4

2013-07-01 Thread Michael Droettboom
I've created https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/2187 for this. On 07/01/2013 07:43 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: Make sure you do a make.py first and a git clean -fxd. I get these errors whenever a file is moved around. I'm building f

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Error building documentation for 1.3.0rc4

2013-07-01 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > Make sure you do a make.py first and a git clean -fxd. I get these errors > whenever a file is moved around. I'm building from 1.3.0rc4 tarball, so no git on the way and make.py exists, else it would have failed calling it, not accessing a mp

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Error building documentation for 1.3.0rc4

2013-07-01 Thread Benjamin Root
Make sure you do a make.py first and a git clean -fxd. I get these errors whenever a file is moved around. Ben Root On Jun 30, 2013 6:09 PM, "Sandro Tosi" wrote: > Hello, > I'm preparing the Debian package for matplotlib 1.3.0rc4 but I got a > failure while building documentation, here's the ext