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Rob Straight
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The Ideas area of Communities is not dead, but... It is not the ideal tool to provide status from Progress back to the Community. If someone asks for a new feature, the best case is that it comes at a time when planning for the next OpenEdge release is just starting, and the feature is prioritized high on the list (a positive addition that will benefit many). After dev and test, the feature would be released in perhaps 9-15 months. That's ideal. The more typical case is that a new Idea comes in during a dev cycle, so it sits until planning starts for the next release. Then, if it is not a higher priority, it can be pushed to the release after, or even longer. In the meantime, what status can we provide? "Under consideration" doesn't seem to be right, nor does "we will look at this again at some point in the future. I can say that OpenEdge Product Management reviews the voting whenever we start preparing to define a new release, and the votes are taken as input of interest. For those items selected, we do attempt to mark them as "Coming Soon", and once released, to update the status to "Available". We certainly can do a better job with that, but that is our process. I encourage people to keep submitting their Ideas- they do get read by Progress, and again, the voting is a valid data point as we consider what we should implement. Going forward, we are thinking about how to improve the requirements gathering process, including feedback to our customers.
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