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[{"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1302975985.752198, "message": "Here we go!", "group_id": 4987, "id": 712584}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303064400.624517, "message": "Day two! Go!", "group_id": 4987, "id": 717936}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303064422.356595, "message": "w00t!", "group_id": 4987, "id": 717939}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303074060.9320469, "message": "and only explains that you should install EPD!", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718662}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303071679.2160101, "message": "PS1='\\[\\033[01;32m\\]\\u@\\h\\[\\033[01;34m\\] \\w\\[\\033[01;31m\\]`git branch 2>/dev/null | grep ^* | tr -d \\*` \\[\\033[01;34m\\]\\$\\[\\033[00m\\] '", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718390}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303073690.4393859, "message": "please share your thoughts", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718613}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303073703.005204, "message": "so far I was mostly learning how to make modifications to the webpage", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718614}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303074026.946346, "message": "yep varun, this quick start page is horrible", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718656}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303071714.4107821, "message": " \\w\\[\\033[01;31m\\]`git branch 2>/dev/null | grep ^* | tr -d \\*` \\[\\033[01;34m\\]", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718396}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303072061.4485359, "message": "\\[\\033[00m\\] ", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718429}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303072373.5552299, "message": "thanks!", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718443}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303072544.031991, "message": "hooray for git safety", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718464}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303073077.94313, "message": "python ets/ets_docs.py update chaco", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718518}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303073675.8518231, "message": "Hey varun, yes let's talk here", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718612}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303073615.6621139, "message": "this is an excellent place to discuss. I'm also looking at the chaco examples right now", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718602}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303073290.467097, "message": "jonathan: I'm back and have been looking at the chaco examples, and have some suggestions for the documentation page. Is this a good place to discuss?", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718544}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303073637.3115871, "message": "Hey Gael, where should the links on this page point (http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/devdetails.php)?", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718607}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303073858.013257, "message": "...and then we can jump into more complex examples.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718637}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303074133.788265, "message": "I've some questions: why doesn't chaco plot take python lists as inputs?", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718667}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303074109.6174271, "message": "@GaelVaroquaux Yeah, I haven't updated this one yet.  So which page on github was my original question?", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718666}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303074038.129812, "message": "the plot part is stil TODO !!!!!!", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718657}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303073826.2335119, "message": "I'm looking at the Quickstart page, and I think we should add some basic plotting example there just to show how to plot x vs. y data, how to set legend text, how to save the figure (which is not explained), etc... basically  a mini howto on how to move from matplotlib to chaco.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718626}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303074047.839047, "message": "the installation is dated as well", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718659}, {"user_id": 29983, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303074052.055671, "message": "@scopatz No, it should point to the corresponding page on github. The reason being that when people google up a Mayavi problem, they land on these pages. We have invested a lot of energy in this (linking to these pages, putting the right keywords on them). Thus we want them to get to their answer quickly.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718660}, {"user_id": 29983, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303074059.929616, "message": "Ideally, there would be an automatic redirection from every CEC documentation page to the corresponding enthought.github one.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718661}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076602.917876, "message": "... and we're back", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718704}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076800.536267, "message": "it would be trivial to accept lists and convert them first though", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718728}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076852.613457, "message": "ok, thanks for the question", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718735}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076731.9132559, "message": "hey varun", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718715}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303079690.996979, "message": "Hi Corran! On the list that I can see here:\n- Traits & Chaco intro (Jonathan R. is working on this now)\n- Chaco procedural (shell) mode intro\n- Updating Examples (make sure they work, fixing when they don't)\n- Migrating trac -> gh issues", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719254}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076762.5199189, "message": "hi, so we are back.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718724}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076844.986275, "message": "yes.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718734}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076891.896208, "message": "also... in the shell/lines.py example i am unable to move the legend. Do we need to do something special to be able to move the legend after plotting?", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718738}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303077203.393136, "message": "Is it true that we can't save 'eps' figures with chaco? chaco 'save' routine says only 'bmp, png and jpg' are supported. When i try save('name.eps') it doesn't do anything .. no error and no plot saved!", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718772}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303077823.9839749, "message": "ok, i wouldn't mind giving it a try if you could point me to some documentation. Also I found in the source code that save routine simply skips over unsupported formats without displaying any message. Could I add a message saying \"format not supported\" and push to github? Are we allowed to modify source code?", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718838}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076780.631449, "message": "still here? To answer your question from earlier, the goal of Chaco is to plot efficiently large datasets. So it assumes Numpy arrays as inputs", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718726}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303077005.985095, "message": "I don't see a legend. Were you talking about a different example?", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718746}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303077858.0793779, "message": "I worked quite a bit on kiva back in December, but I don't remember how well eps rendering worked. PDF rendering works pretty well now.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718841}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303079827.151511, "message": "Yes. I believe the current documentation is bad or non-existent.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719281}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076816.1558001, "message": "exactly...", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718729}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076859.4975691, "message": "I mostly use lists with matplotlib.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718736}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303077075.260618, "message": "You can add a legend to that example from python shell (as explained on the Quickstart page).. or you can also directly add 'legend' line in the code.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718754}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076828.488625, "message": "does matplotlib accept lists?", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718731}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303076835.89289, "message": "is that why you thought of that?", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718732}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303077609.2831221, "message": "@varun: eps output is technically supported by kiva, so it shouldn't be too difficult to fix that bug. (famous last words, I know...)", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718809}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303077974.5459039, "message": "@varun: yes please. bug fixes are always welcome :)", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718871}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303078409.350363, "message": "@varun: chaco/examples/noninteractive.py contains code that renders using different backends", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718987}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303077969.012826, "message": "@varun Arguably it should, but it would convert them to numpy arrays on the backend before plotting", "group_id": 4987, "id": 718870}, {"user_id": 29593, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303080007.5675161, "message": "@cwebster This mailing list thread https://mail.enthought.com/pipermail/enthought-dev/2011-February/028332.html revealed a bug in the initialization of mapped traits.  Not sure if fixing it is a small project.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719302}, {"user_id": 29590, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303079298.084481, "message": "Hi from beautiful Jersey City!  I'm going to grab dinner in a minute, but does anyone have a quick little project to look at this evening in my down time?", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719178}, {"user_id": 29590, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303079756.2617791, "message": "Ah - I know a little about the Chaco shell mode.  The idea is to document it somewhat?", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719266}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303078761.4888549, "message": "@jwiggins: thanks, will take a look.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719086}, {"user_id": 29775, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303078928.856298, "message": "A new class will be needed.. (PsPlotGraphicsContext perhaps?) It will probably be very similar to PdfPlotGraphicsContext or SVGGraphicsContext", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719113}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303079279.3315051, "message": "When I try to push to github, I get an error: error: Cannot access URL https://varunh@github.com/enthought/chaco.git/, return code 22\nerror: failed to push some refs to 'https://varunh@github.com/enthought/chaco.git'", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719172}, {"user_id": 29590, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303080116.4910309, "message": "Docs are probably more my speed this evening.  Thanks for the pointers.  I'll grab some food and be back in a bit.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719312}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303079628.742512, "message": "@varun Hey I had the same error. You need to change the origin to the SSH link. So do a git remote rm origin", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719247}, {"user_id": 14878, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303079665.028089, "message": "and then a git remote add origin git@github.com:enthought/chaco.git", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719250}, {"user_id": 29865, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303079923.019846, "message": "@jonathanrocher thanks it worked.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719291}, {"user_id": 29593, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19872, "date_created": 1303080143.648052, "message": "Another issue that we discovered during the class last week: the + and - keys should zoom a chaco plot, but the + key does not work if one uses \"shift-=\" to get the + key.", "group_id": 4987, "id": 719317}]