News/Poll from the Maintainers!

[Ognyan Moore]

Hello everyone,

I have a few notifications/announcements to make here that some of you may want to weigh in on.

1. I am considering dropping support for Qt < 5.15.  There are now conda-forge packages for both PyQt5 and PySide2 5.15.5, so I see little need for future versions of pyqtgraph to support older versions of Qt.  I have created a poll on the repo, if you have thoughts/questions on this, please chime in there.
2. pijyoi has introduced experimental support for creating faster QPainterPath objects (we primarily use them for the construction of our lines) in PR #2324.  We would like to get some people to test this out, and report on any issues they encounter (and similarly report the lack of issues too). This requires running pyqtgraph from the current master branch (it will be in the next release), and setting the enableExperimental flag to True (you can do it by running the following: pyqtgraph.setConfigOptions({"enableExperimental": True}) )
3. PyQt6 6.3.1 adds support for a new data structure allowing us to pass numpy arrays more directly to drawPixmapFragments (used in scatter plots) and drawLines (used for drawing lines > 1px thickness).  If you are dealing with very large amounts of data or have high-performance needs and use those methods, we'd love to get your input on using this.  This feature will be in the next released version of pyqtgraph, and is currently in the master branch.
4. We also have a channel on the main python discord server, where a lot of the maintainers and some regular contributors monitor.  If you want to communicate with us in a more direct fashion, especially if you're already on the python discord server, please come by and say hello, here is a link to the channel.
5. If you have some PyPy experience and are interested in getting pyqtgraph support for PyPy, please reach out to us.

Thanks everyone!

[DAVID ALEJANDRO PINEDA]

Excelent ideas, if you need testers here I am :)