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Howdy,

  I've been a matplotlib user for some time, and I've been thinking
about contributing to the project. I poked around in the github issues
list, particularly the low-hanging fruit tag
(https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/labels/low%20hanging%20fruit),
but nothing immediately struck my fancy, and I don't want to step on
any toes / reduplicate any significant efforts, so I thought I'd throw
it out there to the devs - do you guys have anything to point me
towards that I could get started and at least get into the swing of
things?

          Thanks,
                 Paul

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I know this is a bit cliche-ish, but documentation is always a great place to start.

  1. Fresh perspective is always valuable. As developers get “self-indoctrinated”, we get used to various gaps in the documentation such that they become blind spots for us. This is why the sign of a healthy project is infusion of new blood.

  2. In-depth documentation review is a great way to figure out deviations between code and documentation. When I was developing my “Anatomy of Matplotlib” tutorial, I came across a number of errors and omissions because of it.

There are also MEPs that are awaiting further review (I think the toolbar refactor is getting close to being ready for final acceptance). MEP reviews by newcomers are great because it helps to make sure that some major new feature are actually considered as useful by newcomers and also make sense to them (see “self-indoctrination”).

Welcome to the party!

Ben Root

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On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Paul Ganssle <pganssle@…149…> wrote:

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Howdy,

I’ve been a matplotlib user for some time, and I’ve been thinking

about contributing to the project. I poked around in the github issues

list, particularly the low-hanging fruit tag

(https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/labels/low%20hanging%20fruit),

but nothing immediately struck my fancy, and I don’t want to step on

any toes / reduplicate any significant efforts, so I thought I’d throw

it out there to the devs - do you guys have anything to point me

towards that I could get started and at least get into the swing of

things?

      Thanks,

             Paul

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