[Gretl-devel] Re: difficult quiz to get an account for uploading packages
Am 04.03.2022 um 19:05 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2022, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> I've just noticed the current state of the procedure how to obtain a
> login to upload a contributed package (as an author). This quiz strikes
> me as prohibitive: "The midasreg command was introduced in"...
> Seriously? I would fail bitterly, thank God I already have an access
> account.
Seems to me anyone serious about gretl knows there's a change log
online (linked on the main gretl page) and can easily search through
it via their browser to find the earliest reference to midasreg. I
suppose we could insert a link to the change log in that question but
I don't think that should really be necessary.
Hm, I really think we shouldn't overestimate the extent to which people
outside our devel bubble know the various bits and pieces of the gretl
universe. I mean the changelog isn't even shipped in the gretl
installation. (or is it?) And most people wouldn't care about it. Just
think how little even the gretl inner circle people are aware of when a
certain feature was introduced and what the resulting gretl version
requirement is.
I know we've had spamming problems in that area, but maybe we have
overshot the target. I think with contributed packages it's a bit like
voting in the US: it should be made easier, not harder.
> And question number 1 is ill-posed I think, sigma isn't defined.
Conventionally, in the context of a regression, sigma^2 is the
variance of the error term unless otherwise specified, no?
Well, yes, but since there are multiple choice options like
"hyperelasticity" one wonders if perhaps the sigma equation part isn't
also some kind of trick question :-)
cheers
sven
>
> Allin
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