Hi,

I'm preparing a package to apply some statistical matching procedures using gretl; I would like to make it  public by uploading it to the server

I have already created some scripts, which reproduce the same outputs obtainable using Stata.

Could this create any problems?

Maybe my question is a bit funny, but I don't want to cause problems for gretl or myself

Hi Paolo, nothing bad can happen, that's why we have a moderation process for contributed packages. (I am part of the moderation team.) So you cannot directly publish the package yourself on the official package server. When you upload a contributed package (preferably from within gretl), it first goes to a so-called "staging area" and the moderation team receives an alert about the upload. Then someone from the team checks your package for technical or other obvious problems. In the majority of cases, we indeed find some things that need fixing, and we would contact you directly about it.

Then the package will be approved by a moderator, and only then is it actually published and goes to the official server (and is downloadable from within gretl).

However, let me stress that the responsibility for the implementation and correctness of the results rests with the respective package author(s). The gretl moderation team cannot check all the packages for statistical or other mistakes; that's not the purpose of the moderation process. That's a difference between the "contributed" packages and other addons such as, for example, regls (doing Lasso and so on), which come directly from the gretl team.

So - we're looking forward to your contribution!

thanks

sven