"I strongly believe that once fabrication stage starts taking more than a few months - it's a bold sign of a blackhole, wrong direction or a bad idea altogether."

I think that is probably right. There is such thing as "a runaway project" - and they are especially a danger for Boonex I think. I'm not sure how obsessed you should be with keeping he development team small - if you do I hope you don't lose at least the "spirit of open source" here..

I think see more most of us will likely have to go with 7.0.7 - I'm hoping the search is fixed and some of the other things we lost when we upgraded from D6. D7 is now mostly a stable product and I think you should keep improving on it before any "pie in the sky" new versions - everyone is pretty burned out on that.

p.s. The page control mod in D7.0.7 was a great addition - keep putting "value" into D7 like that, and you will have a world class product.