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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[doc]: add 'validate' section to install docs","articleBody":"### Documentation Link\r\n\r\nhttps://matplotlib.org/devdocs/devel/development_setup.html\r\n\r\n### Problem\r\n\r\nThe install docs don't have instructions on how to check that the install went through correctly. I think, especially for new contributors, it'd be helpful if we offered a drop more guidance.\r\n\r\n### Suggested improvement\r\n\r\nAdd a new section to https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/doc/devel/development_setup.rst after install in editable mode. This section should:\r\n\r\n1. Have instructions for checking that the version that's installed \u003cstrike\u003ematches the last commit `import matplotib; matplotib.__version__`\u003c/strike\u003e is the repo `import matplotlib; matplotlib.__file__`\r\n\r\n3. Link to the running the tests page to verify that the code installed clean: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/doc/devel/testing.rst#L35\r\n4. Link to the  building the docs page to verify that the docs build clean: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/doc/devel/document.rst\r\n\r\n\r\nTests and docs should be sentences with links (or a bullet list of table) and not the instructions specifically so that this section acts as an introduction/nudge to those pages and so that we won't have to maintain two sets of instructions.\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/story645","@type":"Person","name":"story645"},"datePublished":"2023-07-24T06:02:48.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/26379/matplotlib/issues/26379"}