Tim Hoffmann

> We use the `:rst:dir:...` notation in quite a few places around the documentation though, not only in in the tutorial code. Perhaps it'd look unusual and/or be quite repetitive...

The importance of the decision also depends on whether we assume XRefRole class is public API, i.e. whether extensions derive from it. If not, we are able to easily refactor...

@electric-coder thanks for given your opinion. I hear your concerns, but disagree with a number of your arguments. In the end, the question is: **Is syntactic markup (of roles and/or...

@chrisjsewell I'm unclear on the implecation of your comment. Are you objecting the syntactic formatting of role and/or directive links, or the way it is implemented by making `XRefRole` configurable?

I have a slight preference for removing the tests. You‘ll need test dependencies and the reference images additionally, so it‘s anyway generally not easily possible to run the tests. Instead,...

Is the file located on some synced folder (network drive, dropbox, google drive, ...)? This is along standing issue and we do not really know how to solve it. See...

@rcomer @aydengemz given, https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/20644#issuecomment-2528813561 and https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/20644#issuecomment-2819650076 i tend towards not implementing label alignment. Are there compelling use cases that still need to set this? If so, is the per-text alignment...

Closing for lack of feedback. It's also unclear whether we really need/want this. Discussion should continue in #20644.

@madeira-dev Do you want to continue on this?

Current master has a warning `UserWarning: The following kwargs were not used by contour: 'lw'`. That's at least good enough to no not surpise the user. I'm unclear if we...