Re: [Gretl-devel] Out-of-date "contributing" paragraph on the gretl homepage
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 29.07.2016 um 17:01 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
>
>>> BTW, the Wiki is out-of-date in several respects, I suggest to not
>>> link to it from the homepage anymore, at least not directly and
>>> without a suitable comment.
>>
>> I'll leave Jack to respond to that one, but since he's in bass-player
>> mode at the moment (good on him!) that may not happen right away.
>
> I've been thinking about the possibility of shutting the wiki down. It
> never gained any traction, and IMO it's better to have no wiki rather
> than a ghost one. Thoughts?
Basically I agree. OTOH the question is still on the table what would come
afterwards. I'm not sure whether the current quietness on the mailing lists
is a seasonal phenomenon, but somehow it feels as if there's isn't much
community communication happening. Of course it could be that gretl "just
works" for the vast majority.
I think it is a seasonal thing. These are, as we say in English (for
whatever reason), the "dog days" of summer, and I believe that the
lists have been pretty quiet in this period before. We can take up
the question of the wiki and/or other question/answer sites that are
not specific to gretl, later.
In the meantime, if there's anyone out there, not at the beach or
whatever, who wishes to read about progress in implementing MIDAS
(Mixed Data Sampling) in gretl, I can recommend for your summer
reading
http://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/midas/midasnotes.pdf
Allin