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The surveyor developers google group is a good place to search for your issue and discuss possible bugs. Confirmed bugs should be submitted to the github issue tracker. For build status see our surveyor's continuous integration page.

#reference_identifier: usually derived from paper numbering, reference_identifier can be assigned in the DSL e.g. question_1 or a_yes. The reference identifier is also used for dependencies and validations, and must be unique for questions within the scope of a section, and unique for answers within the scope of a question.
#data_export_identifier: intended for data export
#common_namespace: intended for mapping to a common vocabulary
#common_identifier: intended for mapping to a common vocabulary
#display_order: for sorting
#custom_class: css class for this answer, for custom styling. Use with Survey#css_url, a path to your custom css stylesheet. not supported by nu_surveyor

#custom_renderer: path to a custom view use to render the answer e.g. /partials/custom_answer. not supported by nu_surveyor
#text: the text that the user sees.
#help_text: intended to provide supporting explanation or examples when needed.

Enforce mandatory questions (although it does have some1 methods2 on ResponseSet to support that)
Dependencies within repeaters (#235)
Validations within the UI (#34), although it does have model support and database representations
GUI creating, editing, deleting and administration of surveys (#110)
Consistently support HTML tags in title, text, help_text attributes. We intend to move to markdown support so that same survey definition can be used with nu_surveyor.