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I've tested with Sandbox on June 12.
I add a field "1) What type of organization are you?"
I get an error message: Field's Name should not start with digit
This is a bug because a field label should be freely chosen.  It occurs because the internal field name is derived from the field label.  This is a quick and easy way of generating a related and unique field name, however the process should not restrict the label in any way.
Programmers: I suggest to strip illegal characters from the field name on generation.  Remember that you may be left with nothing left in the process.  Also note that to avoid field name collisions, you need to add something unique to the name.  Hope this can make it to 2.1.  Thanks.

Hello,
I'd like to understand how the open source community works.  I had expected that a person reporting a bug, such as myself, could at least submit it somewhere for permanent record.  Then, if some volunteer programmer is up to it, they will fix the bug someday.  Even better, someone in the role of release manager will prioritize the bugs and request that volunteers address them in this priority.
One of the supposed benefits of opensource is that you can fix things yourself - however that's not really practical.  I'm employed to get a certain website working.  Once I leave, the website has to be maintainable by completely non-technical people.  I can't do any serious programming, the organization needs a solution that works now.
I happen to be a programmer in this case and could probably patch it myself, but it's not worth the time - in other words, I can see there being no motivation for anyone to ever fix these niggling little bugs forever.
Taking this back to the beginning - it's hardly worth my effort in documenting this bug.