DOC: improve description of boilerplate.py#30562
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Then what about adding a note in the API changes guide? |
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Thanks for doing this! Minor grammar fixes and style changes.
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This is definitely an improvement, thanks!
I'd still prefer an additional note/mention in the API changes docs, but maybe in a follow up cause the where may be not obvious?
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Closes #27190.
Note: I've left out the part on adding something to the coding guidelines. The combination of the explanations in
pyplot.pyandboilerplate.pyshould be good enough to understand how this works. And the testtest_pyplot_up_to_dateshould notify any need to runboilerplate.py.I would treat this mechanism as an implementation detail that uncovers itself when needed. Adding to the coding guidelines only bloats them, but 95% of contributors will not have to know about it because they don't change our public API.