<h1>Matplotlib Enhancement Proposals<aclass="headerlink" href="#matplotlib-enhancement-proposals" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>Matplotlib Enhancement Proposals (MEP), inspired by cpython's <aclass="reference external" href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/">PEP's</a> but less formal, are design
documents for large or controversial changes to Matplotilb. These
documents should provide a discussion of both why and how the changes
should be made.</p>
<p>To create a new MEP open a pull request (PR) adding a file based on
<aclass="reference internal" href="template.html#mep-template"><spanclass="std std-ref">the template</span></a> to this the MEP directory. For the
initial PR only a rough description is required and it should be
merged quickly. Further detailed discussion can happen in follow on
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal" href="MEP26.html">MEP26: Artist styling</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal" href="MEP27.html">MEP27: Decouple pyplot from backends</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal" href="MEP28.html">MEP28: Remove Complexity from Axes.boxplot</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal" href="MEP29.html">MEP29: Text light markup</a></li>
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