Dear CIL users,

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:24:19AM -0600, Ben Liblit wrote:
> On 11/11/2014 01:50 PM, I wrote:
> >Please consider making a new CIL 1.7.4 release with this fix as well.
> 
> Gabriel, are you still around?  I assume you'd be the one to post a new
> release.  Can you please make that happen soon, so we have some hope of
> getting this into Fedora 21 beta?  Thanks!

Sorry for my long silence and unresponsiveness.

I'm now back to work on CIL (on my copious free time…) and making
progress. My goal is to simplify things as much as possible so as to
reduce friction and make it easier to improve doc and contribute code in
the future.

My plan:
- create a cil-project org on github (done - Ben and I are current
  admins, other people are welcome if they want to contribute). Move cil
  there (done), and some plugins (I've moved corocheck and the skeleton
  example already, ask if you want yours moved there too).
- kill everything on sourceforge except the mailing-list (website
  redirected to github pages, code and bugs moved to github).
  Sourceforge's UI is really unusable, github has won, and maintaining
  both is a pain.  I'll finish the killing/redirect part after the
  release.
- move the generic doc (how to install, get started, and list of
  plugins) to Sphinx (basically a bunch of reStructuredText files); link
  to ocamldoc for API details. Benefits: removes the Hevea dependency
  and those old-fashioned frames, avoids duplicating API info in LaTeX
  and ocamldoc.  This is work in progress currently.
- make a release using github (no more generation of the html doc to
  bundle with the release, people can either rebuild the doc, or
  access/download it online separately).

At some later point, I also plan to update Travis scripts to automate
pushing doc to github pages and use opam's pinning feature to simplify
them. This is not blocking the current release though. Improving API doc
would be nice as well, but not blocking either. Finally, we can finish
Fedora and Debian packages.

Let me know if you have strong objections about any of this, or hints to
get things even simpler,
-- 
Gabriel

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