@@ -2,25 +2,20 @@ Matplotlib Mission Statement
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44The Matplotlib developer community develops, maintains, and supports Matplotlib
5- and its extensions to provide data visualization tools for the Scientific Python
6- Ecosystem.
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8- We believe that a diverse developer community creates the best software, and we
9- welcome anyone who shares our mission and values, as described in the code of
10- conduct.
5+ and its extensions to provide data visualization tools for the Scientific
6+ Python Ecosystem.
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8+ Adapting the requirements :ref: `laid out by John Hunter <project_history >`
9+ Matplotlib should:
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13- Adapting the requirements :ref: `laid out by John Hunter
14- <project_history>` Matplotlib should:
11+ * Support users of the Scientific Python Ecosystem;
12+ * Facilitate interactive data exploration;
13+ * Produce high-quality raster and vector format outputs suitable for publication;
14+ * Provide a simple graphical user interface and support embedding in applications;
15+ * Be understandable and extensible by people familiar with data processing in Python;
16+ * Make common plots easy, and novel or complicated visualizations possible.
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16- * Support all users of the Scientific Python Ecosystem;
17- * Produce high-quality raster and vector format outputs;
18- * Be usable as a stand-alone graphical user interface, and to be embeddable in applications, both native and on the web.
19- * Be understandable and extendable by people familiar with data processing
20- techniques and with the Python programming language;
21- * Make common plots easy;
22- * Make novel or complicated visualizations possible.
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24- To achieve these goals for the full range of domains where Scientific Python is
25- used, Matplotlib provides a general library on which domain-specific
26- extensions can be built .
19+ We believe that a diverse developer community creates the best software, and we
20+ welcome anyone who shares our mission and values, as described in the code of
21+ conduct .
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