Re: [Gretl-devel] the next feature request anniversary

On 06.02.2009 21:52, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Hi, > > there's a feature requests on logit models that is now one year old, see > [ 1886339 ]: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1886339&... > > Of course, in principle there's no reason why a feature request couldn't > simply exist for years until it might eventually get fulfilled; but > still I think one year is a good time to make a decision whether it is > still needed in the feature request database. > > For example, the first part of that request (implement multinomial > logit) is of course valid, but in some sense it's not needed, because > everybody knows that having more models in gretl would be nice, it's > just a matter of limited programmer resources, and a reminder isn't > necessary. For the same reason I haven't filed a feature request > "implement structural VAR models" or similar things. > > So if it were just for that part of the request, I would be inclined to > close it. > > But then there are the smaller parts 2 and 3 which relate to the > handling of the reference category. What about those, is this deemed > unimportant or could it be done in the next half-year or so? And BTW, > wouldn't this refer to probit also? (and to what else?) So maybe we > should rename the request along those lines? -ping-