On Tue, Dec 30, 2014, at 09:53 AM, Gabriel Kerneis wrote:
> 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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