OctoPrint Patron Survey! (Patreon)

Now that the stable release of 1.3.0 is finally within reach, it's time to think about what comes after that. Yes, I know, took me long enough :)

I thought it would be best to first get an idea of how you are even using OctoPrint (assuming you do :P), what you are missing the most, what annoys you the most and so on. To achieve this I've setup a small survey which you can find here:

https://goo.gl/Fttzro 

I'll let this run throughout the month of December (I might add the one or other reminder over the whole duration) and then evaluate it and give you an update come January. Depending on the results I might also do some follow-up questions to get some more details on various things.

In the meantime let me quickly summarize my current plans for after 1.3.0, which I've also already mentioned in the latest episode of OctoPrint On Air. The first thing I'll need to do is to do a proper spring cleaning in the issue/feature request tracker. It's become a bit chaotic, and there are a lot of tickets that are either already solved in the application itself or by existing plugins, or that are actually duplicates of existing tickets. After that is taken care of, I can finally setup proper feature voting - which I intend to do utilizing the existing Github +1/-1 reactions, but possibly with a customized front end to make things easier for you!

I do realize I've been leaving you hanging with regards to feature voting for a while now, and I'm really sorry for that. I was fully focused on finally getting out 1.3.0 for you and hence getting its existing functionality stable instead of adding new features took absolute priority. I'm very happy this time will soon be over (I hope ;)), because after all these months of mostly maintenance and debugging of existing functionality I honestly am itching to build some cool new things again - I hope you are looking forward to that too :)

PS: Initially this was supposed to go live yesterday on December 1st, but due to Patreon's outage issues then I thought it would be better to rather wait a bit with this post.