Hi Peter,

I just posted a very detailed reply to Jim Nelson on this topic; I invite you to read it.

Please do not misunderstand my direction - I am not debating the need as such, just the practicality.

However, I will offer you this: If you wish to know the status of a bug already submitted or an enhancement request, please email me and I'll let you know what the status is. Just don't email me new bugs or new enhancements as I can't easily adjudicate those.

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>On the VFPSIG meeting in Haarlem (The Netherlands) I had some questions for Ken Levy And Yag. One of those questions was something like this (Ken has a paper copy):
>People who submit a wish or bug currently don't get feedback. Feedback will probably further enlarge motivation to submit wishes and bugs. Can you (MS) take care of feedback?
>Alan told me to wait for news very soon to come. Of course he was referring to the news about the MSDN site.
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>Perhaps you should first talk about this issue internally before suggesting here that there's no need for such 'mechanism'?!
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>>Hi Jim,
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>>The Ladybug mechanism was put in place largely because there was no clear means for those developer communities to impart gaffes and bugs to the product teams and this provides that.
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>>On the other hand, there are several avenues available to the average VFP developer to impart information to your product team. There's the UT, beta newsgroups (for the private beta users), and other means. As well, most of us know most of you, and - believe me - we all hear from our friends in the outside world on what's right and what's wrong.
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>>So, we believe that it's bureaucratic overhead we simply don't need. It will suck resources from us and accomplish nothing that we're not already accomplishing.
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>>Of course, feel free to post requests to add VFP. I'm not averse to this, just don't see a huge groundswell of support. If that groundswell materializes and I'm proven wrong - hey, great!
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>>>I have opened suggestion ID FDBK11025 there requesting that VFP be added to the products supported by the facility.
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>>>These things, apparently, work by vote as much as anything else, so you might consider registering yours there.
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>>>I find I get the entry directly by entering "FoxPro" as the Search field.
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>>>cheers