Jody Klymak

I guess a 4th option is use "stair" by default if there are over X bins, where X is something like the screen resolution?

Yeah, I think making `stairs` the default will be hard as it will break a lot of people. There are two (at least) problems 1. sometimes bars are too thin...

Thanks @martinRenou that would be my preference, based on my loose understanding of how this works. But its possible others are less conservative and are for this...

But maybe this belongs on the brochure page versus the doc page? Also the font cache rebuilding each startup is suboptimal. Does that get cached at least?

https://matplotlib.org is at https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl-brochure-site. This is currently targeting the top-level of the docs, versus the top level of the org. I don't feel strongly that it cannot go at the...

Discussed on call. OK to go ahead with this. Vendor GaussianKDE and make the current version private. @oscargus if you were still interested in pulling this out as a toolbox...

I don't think there is a rush for the deprecation if you think you will have something in a couple of months.

Yes, that was the consensus on the call - just vendor GaussianKDE. The other functions that _should_ depend on scipy, but do not, will just be flat out deprecated, and...

I'm completely befuddled as to why this PR fails font-name tests. I rebased off master, and I don't see any way I touched font handling. Something weird is going on...

> I realized that we either should deprecate the corresponding functions in pyplot/Axes as well or make sure that they use the non-deprecated versions directly from numpy (where possible) or...