DOC: add high-level technical requirements

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit 84d143387b91 · 2021-11-26T21:49:12.000-05:00
diff --git a/doc/users/project/mission.rst b/doc/users/project/mission.rst
@@ -8,3 +8,20 @@ enable our users, across scientific, industrial, commercial, and educational
 applications, to achieve their goals.  A diverse developer community creates
 the best software and we welcome anyone, regardless of experience, education,
 gender, or nationality, who shares our mission to the community.
+
+
+Adapting the requirements :ref:`laid out by John Hunter
+<History>` Matplotlib should:
+
+* Support all users of the Scientific Python Ecosystem;
+* Produce high-quality raster and vector formats output;
+* Be embeddedable in graphical user interfaces for application development;
+* Be understandable and extendable by scientists, data scientists, and
+  engineers;
+* Make standard plots easy;
+* Make novel or complicated visualizations possible.
+
+To achieve these goals simultaneously across the full gamut of the domains we
+support we have adopted a model of a core general library and an ecosystem of
+domain-specific extensions that inter-operate as much as practical.
+
