Re: [Gretl-devel] about adding function packages to the menus

On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> My first suggestion therefore is to include the "author" field not > only in the package list in the "on server" window, but also in the > list window displaying the locally installed packages. This should > make it more transparent that these are _contributed_ packages, and > not core gretl. (Also the ego of the authors might benefit a little.) I don't see why we shouldn't do this.

One thing that we could do, in order to inform the user on the degree of testing a certain package has undergone, is to give package authors the possibility of writing a short working paper (in the "gretl wp" collection) where replication of known examples is performed, like Claudia and myself did for DPB, and advertise that in the package description.