inverting an axis shouldn't affect the autoscaling setting
Renamed all instances of variables named "long" to "lon" to avoid clobbering by 2to3
Remove NO_DEPRECATED flag -- this was accidentally committed.
Added a test for #1553
Remove redundant ob_refcnt's that cause crashes when built in DEBUG mode.
Fixed blitting in Gtk3Agg backend to redraw only area defined by bbox (#1575)
Merge pull request #1578 from spinnau/fix_1575

Fixed blitting in Gtk3Agg backend
Merge pull request #1579 from joferkington/fix-custom_projection_example

Updated custom_projection_example.py to work with v1.2 and newer
Fix #1583: Crash with text.usetex=True and plt.annotate -- usetex bounding boxes are all NaNs when text is empty.
Fix: positional argument specifiers are required by Python 2.6
Fix: positional argument specifiers are required by Python 2.6
Fix: positional argument specifiers are required by Python 2.6
Fix: positional argument specifiers are required by Python 2.6
Fix: positional argument specifiers are required by Python 2.6
Merge pull request #1590 from cgohlke/patch-1

Positional argument specifiers are required by Python 2.6
Fix a syntax error in examples (movie_demo.py).
new MatplotlibDeprecationWarning class

In light of the fact that Python builtin DeprecationWarnings are ignored
by default as of Python 2.7 (see link below), this class was put in to
allow for the signaling of deprecation, but via UserWarnings which are
not ignored by default.

http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html#the-future-for-python-2-x

Prior to this commit:

```
In [1]: %pylab

Welcome to pylab, a matplotlib-based Python environment [backend: agg].
For more information, type 'help(pylab)'.

In [2]: mlab.liaupunov([1,2], np.diff)
Out[2]: 0.0
```

After this commit:
```
In [1]: %pylab

Welcome to pylab, a matplotlib-based Python environment [backend: agg].
For more information, type 'help(pylab)'.

In [2]: mlab.liaupunov([1,2], np.diff)
/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/mlab.py:1212:
MatplotlibDeprecationWarning: This does not belong in matplotlib and
will be removed
  mDeprecation) # 2009/06/13
Out[2]: 0.0
```
more complete fix for #1583 (multiple spaces)
adding Ada Lovelace's public domain portrait

Original watercolor portrait by Alfred Edward Chalon, woodcut-style
graphic by Colin Adams for the Ada Initiative, SVG conversion by Fred
the Oyster, and colorization by Kaldari, under CC0 1.0 Universal Public
Domain Dedication, from Wikimedia Commons

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ada_Lovelace_color.svg
adding Grace Murray Hopper's photo

20 January 1984
Source  U.S. Naval Historical Center Online Library Photograph NH
96919-KN (jpg)
Photographer: James S. Davis

License: All information on this site is in the public domain and may be
distributed or copied unless otherwise specified. Use of appropriate
byline/photo/image credits is requested.

This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or
made during the course of the person's official duties. As a work of the
U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grace_Hopper.jpg