updating the branch.

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+version: 2
+updates:
+- package-ecosystem: pip
+  directory: "/"
+  schedule:
+    interval: daily
+  open-pull-requests-limit: 10
+- package-ecosystem: github-actions
+  directory: "/"
+  schedule:
+    interval: "daily"

.gitignore

@@ -1,11 +1,131 @@
-*.pyc
-.ipynb_checkpoints
-*.egg-info
-__pycache__
-*.egg-info/
+# Qcodes .db files
+*.db
+
+# IDEs
 .idea/
-doc/_build
-doc/make.bat
-doc/Makefile
+.vscode/*
+
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
 build/
+develop-eggs/
 dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+pip-wheel-metadata/
+share/python-wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+MANIFEST
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.nox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+.cache
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+.hypothesis/
+.pytest_cache/
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+db.sqlite3
+db.sqlite3-journal
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py
+
+# pyenv
+.python-version
+
+# pipenv
+#   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
+#   However, in case of collaboration, if having platform-specific dependencies or dependencies
+#   having no cross-platform support, pipenv may install dependencies that don't work, or not
+#   install all needed dependencies.
+#Pipfile.lock
+
+# celery beat schedule file
+celerybeat-schedule
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+env.bak/
+venv.bak/
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+.dmypy.json
+dmypy.json
+
+# Pyre type checker
+.pyre/

README.md

@@ -18,10 +18,18 @@ https://plottr.readthedocs.io (work in progress...)
 
 Plottr is installable from pypi with `pip install plottr`
 
-To install with either PyQt5 or Pyside2 backend you can do
-``pip install plottr[PyQt5]`` or ``pip install plottr[Pyside2]`` Note that if 
-you have installed ``pyqt`` from ``(Ana)Conda`` you should not use any of these
-targets but do ``pip install plottr`` 
+Plottr requires either the PyQt5 or Pyside2 gui framework.
+To install with PyQt5 or Pyside2 backend you can do
+``pip install plottr[PyQt5]`` or ``pip install plottr[Pyside2]`` 
+
+Note that if  you have installed ``pyqt`` from ``(Ana)Conda`` you should not use any of these
+targets but do ``pip install plottr`` or install Plottr from conda forge:
+
+```
+conda config --add channels conda-forge
+conda config --set channel_priority strict
+conda install plottr
+```
 
 To install from source: clone the repo, and install using `pip install -e .`
 
@@ -50,6 +58,50 @@ You might want to install freshly if you still use the old version.
 
 # Recent changes:
 
+## 2021-11-11
+
+### Added
+
+- Inspectr: tag a run with a star (⭐) or cross (❌) icon, filter by those,
+  also show dataset metadata next to parameters and snapshot (#229)
+- Improvements to monitr: more stability in adding data to ddh5, better
+  performance by making data loading multithreaded and running reach plot
+  window in a separate process (#219)
+- Added pyqtgraph backend for plotting that can be used instead of matplotlib
+  (Example for how to select can be found in test/apps/autoplot_app.py) (#215, #218)
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix/invaliddata: small fixes when data contains a lot of invalid entries (#226)
+- Fix in shape recognition when adding data (#220)
+
+### Behind the scenes
+
+- Add minimal versions to dependencies (#201)
+- Make the .gitignore proper (#73)
+- add dependabot (#208)
+- Fix typechecking with mypy 0.9xx (#207)
+- clarify install instructions wrt qt and mention conda forge (#202)
+
+## 2021-06-08
+
+### Added
+
+- refactoring the plotting system (#166)
+- Add version log message to main ``__init__`` (#175)
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix crop if less than one row is not nan (#198)
+- Fix rgba error (#199)
+- Allow empty dataset if datadict is none (#195)
+
+### Behind the scenes
+
+- Modernize setup files (#194)
+- packaging cleanups (#177)
+- upgrade versioneer to 0.19 (#176)
+
 ## 2021-02-16
 
 ### Added