Hi, I'm just noticing that the whole function-package stuff is not mentioned or mis-represented on the gretl main webpage under the "Contributing to gretl" heading. I think function packages should be mentioned and briefly explained there. If nobody else has time, I can write something, but only three weeks from now (feel free to remind me!).

And where are the links to the function package list? (I know how to get the list from the package administration page, but I mean from the homepage.)

BTW, the Wiki is out-of-date in several respects, I suggest to not link to it from the homepage anymore, at least not directly and without a suitable comment.

>> BTW, the Wiki is out-of-date in several respects, I suggest to not 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?

I think it is a seasonal thing. These are, as we say in English (for whatever reason), the "dog days" of summer,

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

On 3 Aug 2016, at 01:18, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: 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 BTW, the Wiki is out-of-date in several respects, I suggest to not 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

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