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  • Has Pytest style unit tests
  • Code is Flake 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

- support minor versions of ``Python`` initially released
36 months prior to our planned release date.
- support minor versions of ``numpy`` initially released in the 36
months prior to our planned release dat or oldest that supports the
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date (typo)


with compiled extensions
minor versions released in the last 3 years
minor versions initially released in the 36 months prior to our release
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planned release

or the oldest that support our minimum python + numpy

without complied extensions
minor versions released in the last 2 years or the oldest that
supports our minimum python.
minor versions initially released in the 24 months prior to our release
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planned release

@tacaswell tacaswell force-pushed the doc_clarify_deprecation_times branch from d695c84 to c816b09 Compare October 12, 2018 21:11
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force-pushed to fix typos / omissions.

@tacaswell tacaswell modified the milestones: v3.0.x, v3.0.0-doc Oct 12, 2018
- support minor versions of ``numpy`` initially released in the
previous 3 years or oldest that supports the minimum python version
(which ever is higher)
- support minor versions of ``Python`` initially released
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This should have 'in the' like the NumPy line, no? Right now it reads as if only Python older than 3 years is supported and nothing newer.

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NelleV commented Oct 13, 2018

LGTM 👍
It's a clear improvement on our current documentation, so I'm going to go ahead and merge this. We can always improve the wording afterwards.

@NelleV NelleV merged commit 2524624 into matplotlib:master Oct 13, 2018
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Backport PR #12504 on branch v3.0.0-doc (DOC: clarify min supported version wording)
@tacaswell tacaswell deleted the doc_clarify_deprecation_times branch October 15, 2018 19:29
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