David,
I've been following this thread (as others where Fabio reports VFP9 bugs "his own way"). I agree with your argument that we all should provide well structured bug reports in order to the FoxPro team to not waste their precious time, to understand correctly what is being reported and to have all needed information to reproduce the problem. You are covered by reason, in my understanding.
OTOH, I, as a newcomer to the VFP community, non english speaking person (well, think I improved my english writing 1,000% from when I begun to attend FoxPro forums, but I'm far from where I'd like to be) and, most of all, not yet well acquainted to the ways things should be said or done, can understand Fabio's, let's say, "random" way of posting bug information.
One of those things I learned here and elsewhere is that we should give a discount to people's ignorance or inhability in the way things are or should be done, due to these things being new to them.
Take myself as an example: I've been attending to FoxPro forums in a regular basis for the last 4 years, and from time to time (very frequently!) I do stupid things. Stupid to the eyes of you, people that belong to this community for a long time or have a different culture from mine. Many times (most) after being warned by you, our fellows, I realize what I did, apologise (if that's the case), try to correct and learn another lesson.
Think this is the best way to improve ourselves, learning with your wisdom and experience and counting on your help, understanding, patience and condescendence.
With respect,
Fernando
>Sergey,
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>I know how Fabio treats (read that as ignores) my posts to him, the ones I do make are more for the benefit of lurkers hoping that they can see how to produce better bug reports.
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>>It's pointless to give advise to Fabio because he demonstrated many times that he is not interested in improving quality of his bug reports. He prefers conviniently hide behind "english isn't my native language" attitude. I'm done wasting my time trying to understand his posts and simply ignore them alltoghether.
