Hi everybody, this is to pre-announce that the veteran contributed function package "buys_ballot" by Ignacio Díaz-Emparanza (and Jack Lucchetti, last updated in 2018) for seasonal plotting will be retired soon from the public package server. The reason is that its functionality and a little more is offered by the newer package "season_plot" by Artur Tarassow. This course of action has been discussed and coordinated with the package authors. One restriction to note is that "season_plot" for technical reasons requires at least gretl 2024b, which is relatively recent. So we are going to wait for the next gretl release 2024d (which is expected soon) before retiring the other package. As always, you can continue to use the package and also store a local copy of "buys_ballot" for further use. It's probably also going to be archived (@Artur?). If you notice any problems in your usage with the newer package "season_plot", now would be a great time to report it. (on- or off-list) thanks sven