Am 12.05.2023 um 11:43 schrieb Paolo Chirico:
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