Development and Collaboration

Ultimaker Cura is maintained by Ultimaker B.V.

Ultimaker bears the responsibility of maintaining Cura. Ultimaker's objective with Cura is to support their own printers, as well as providing a platform for the entire 3D printing industry to work on. Ultimaker will maintain support for its own printers, and do its best not to break other printer support, but ultimately the support for other printers has to be maintained by people that own and use those printers. To support those printers, and also to manage a platform as large as Cura is, Ultimaker works together with its community. These are a few specific people that bear special mention.

Issue triaging

To help with the volume of incoming issues, Ultimaker has appointed a few prominent members of the community with special powers to triage incoming issues. These people are trusted members of the community, generally knowledgeable in Cura and well-acquainted with the way we work. Current triaging collaborators are:

• fieldOfView
• GregValiant
• Asterchades

Translations

Ultimaker maintains 11 languages with a professional translation bureau. Other languages are maintained by external contributors. The current translation maintainers are:

• Valen Chang (Traditional Chinese)
• Sustmi (Czech)
• Patola (Brazilian Portuguese)

3rd Party Printer Testing

There was once a list of people that test 3rd party printers to see if new Cura releases incur a significant quality drop for those printers. Ultimaker can't test those printers in-house, but relies on others to test for unforeseen consequences of the changes made to the engine. However due to limited effectiveness this program is put on hold. If you see a quality drop due to a new Cura release, please report the issue.