René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Create page with advice for writing a third party package","articleBody":"\u003c!--To help us understand and resolve your issue, please fill out the form to the best of your ability.--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--You can feel free to delete the sections that do not apply.--\u003e\r\n\r\n### Problem\r\n\r\nThere is low discoverability for several things that would make life easier for a third party package developer. For example, I had no idea what a trove classifier even was until it was suggested to me here https://github.com/ianhi/mpl-interactions/issues/25. I also didn't know that it was ok for me to try  to advertise via matplolib (e.g. 3rd party packages page, `@matplotlib` on twitter)\r\n\r\nUnderstanding copywrite can also be tricky, for example see this [discourse conversation](https://discourse.matplotlib.org/t/docs-for-a-method-wrapping-a-matplotlib-method/21055/4?u=ianhi)\r\n\r\n### Suggested Improvement\r\n\r\nCreate a `Creating A Third Party Package` page on the docs. Here's an initial list of topics I think would be helpful:\r\n\r\n\r\n**practical**\r\n- practical copyright rules\r\n   - If it were homework and you didn't acknowledge would it be cheating?\r\n   - If yes then .... (e..g add a comment and include a license file in ___ folder)\r\n- point out that [pytest-mpl](https://github.com/matplotlib/pytest-mpl) exists\r\n- admonish the use of matplotlib private methods\r\n- information on how to passing through docstrings from https://discourse.matplotlib.org/t/docs-for-a-method-wrapping-a-matplotlib-method/21055\r\n- link to, or subsume, https://colcarroll.github.io/yourplotlib/\r\n\r\n**communication**\r\n- Encourage tweeting about your package to `@matplotlib`\r\n   - Link to https://github.com/matplotlib/governance/blob/master/communications_guidelines.md for full explanation\r\n- Explain the standard for inclusion in the third-party-packages list/encourage or discourage this\r\n- Mention the 3rd party packages section on discourse\r\n     - Provide an example questions issue template redirecting questions there? (Mine is [here](https://github.com/ianhi/mpl-interactions/blob/master/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/question.md))\r\n\r\nping @story645 ","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ianhi","@type":"Person","name":"ianhi"},"datePublished":"2020-09-16T03:06:33.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/18496/matplotlib/issues/18496"}