Nicola,
I really appreciate your helpful observations and comments.
Some background: I have been using ORM since the early 1990's and have used each of the ORM tools. (InfoModeler, VisioModeler, VEA and NORMA.) Work on NORMA started about 14 years ago. For many years, I have been aware that NORMA had bugs and deficiencies but until recently, the coding was always done by others. Furthermore, although I have written some small programs in years gone by, my professional life has not involved a requirement for me to write code in a professional capacity.
However, about three years ago, I saw that work on NORMA was slowing down so I took it upon myself to start a JIRA project with a view to fixing the bugs in NORMA and to adding new features. (First, I had to learn JIRA!)
When I started the JIRA project, there were "43 known but unresolved bugs" in NORMA. Several hard working volunteers have helped to reduce the backlog to just 10 and in about two weeks I expect that we will be down to 9.
Now I'm not claiming that the set of "known bugs" is the same as the set of "all bugs in NORMA" so I'm not surprised to hear that you may have identified additional bugs.
So, if it is the case that you have identified one or more previously unknown bugs, what needs to be done is to properly document the bug(s) and add them to the JIRA project.
I spend a lot of time on this because my experiences of IT and IT management over several decades have convinced me that ORM is poorly understood but extremely powerful method with huge potential. However, a first step in realising the potential is to fix NORMA!
Please let me know if you would like to participate the JIRA project.
Thanks
Ken