Fixing Package Fragmentation

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We’ve had this discussion (more focused on statistics) already:

How can we create a leaner ecosystem for Julia?

Comparisons of Julia w/ other languages often say one disadvantage of Julia is that it has fewer 3rd party packages. I tend to disagree. Julia doesn’t need more packages, it needs better packages (w/ more functionality). For example, two recent posts about time-series (here) & (here) highlight the amount of redundancy & lack of cooperation between Julia developers. Consider some packages listed in the posts & others I found on my own: TSAnalysis, ARFIMA,StateSpaceModels, ARMAProcesses, TimeS…