I know there have been discussions in the past about the development path for InfoQube.  I'm not nearly as informed as many of the long-term users here but I hope I'm not out of line in raising an issue about development.

 

InfoQube seems to be evolving at a rapid pace right now and I love the new features being added (especially the upcoming multi-pick fields).  I'm no programmer, but I believe that the introduction of new bugs is an inevitable part of adding features.  My concern is that something might happen to stop development (God forbid) and we would be left with a wonderful program which, unfortunately, is hampered by unresolved bugs.

 

Has there been any discussion about this contingency?  Is there someone in place who could step in and clean up existing bugs if Pierre isn't available?  Has there been any discussion of taking "operational pauses" every so often where development stops temporarily and there's an all out effort to clean up bugs in the current version?  If everyone pitched in to find the bugs, this could probably be done in short order.  That way, there would always be a solid, stable, powerful, (relatively) bug-free recent version that you could always retreat to, and be happy.

 

I hope I don't have to state the obvious: that this isn't in any way a criticism of Pierre or how he's doing things.  The fact that the program is so exceptionally good is precisely why I'm concerned.

 

Edit:  The more I think about this, the less I'm concerned.  The bugs I've encountered have generally been of the minor annoyance variety and not anything that makes the software unusable.  And you always have the option of backing up to a previous version that you think works better.

 

Wayne