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@anntzer anntzer commented Jun 27, 2018

Breaking down #9795 into smaller pieces.
Marking as release critical following #9795.


This will make backend fallback logic easier (try a backend, if it
raises ImportError, move to the next one).

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  • Has Pytest style unit tests
  • Code is PEP 8 compliant
  • New features are documented, with examples if plot related
  • Documentation is sphinx and numpydoc compliant
  • Added an entry to doc/users/next_whats_new/ if major new feature (follow instructions in README.rst there)
  • Documented in doc/api/api_changes.rst if API changed in a backward-incompatible way

This will make backend fallback logic easier (try a backend, if it
raises ImportError, move to the next one).
@anntzer anntzer added the Release critical For bugs that make the library unusable (segfaults, incorrect plots, etc) and major regressions. label Jun 27, 2018
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👍 works as expected for the OSX backend on a non-framework build, someone else should probably check that gtk3 behaves as expected

@tacaswell tacaswell merged commit 939c311 into matplotlib:master Jun 28, 2018
@anntzer anntzer deleted the backendloadfailure branch June 28, 2018 21:49
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