Re: [Gretl-devel] about adding function packages to the menus
Am 19.01.2017 um 19:50 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> In most cases, replication is a non-trivial task, that needs to
be
> descrbed in a reasonable amount of detail, if the package is of some
> complexity. I remain convinced that a pdf file describing exactly what
> is being done and how would be essential in many cases, if not most.
OK, I agree that'll be true in many cases.
I don't think it is currently true that the majority of packages are so
complex.
In any case, what's the way forward? Jack's opinion seems to be, rely on
the community to spot and report bugs. He has a point, but I believe
that the barriers to bug reporting are still too high. Nobody is going
to join a mailing list nowadays just to report what might or might not
be a single bug.
Of course we do have the bug tracker on sourceforge, but it's not very
visible. First, it's not mentioned on the gretl homepage. Secondly, even
if you understand the relatively cryptic heading "gretl project page"
and follow that to https://sourceforge.net/projects/gretl/, it's still
not obvious where to report bugs -- you have to click on "Tickets" first.
Perhaps we should have a direct link from the front page to
https://sourceforge.net/p/gretl/bugs/ ? And please, can we finally
remove the link to the dead gretl wiki from the front page?
thanks,
sven