Proposal to move CoqIDE to Coq-community

[palmskog]

Project name: CoqIDE

Initial author(s): The Coq development team, INRIA, CNRS, and contributors

Current URL: https://github.com/coq/coq

Kind: Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Coq

License: LGPL-2.1-only

Description: CoqIDE is an IDE implemented using the OCaml programming language and the GTK3 widget toolkit for graphical user interfaces (GUIs), thanks to the lablgtk3 OCaml package. CoqIDE uses a legacy XML-based protocol to communicate with Coq and is licensed under the open source LGPL-2.1 license.

Status: CoqIDE's source code is currently part of Coq's GitHub repository. Due to a desire to shift IDE-related work toward LSP and VS Code support, the Coq core team no longer considers CoqIDE maintenance and evolution a priority. With this proposal issue, the team wants to give an opportunity to the Coq community to take over CoqIDE maintenance and lead its future evolution.

More details about the context and the plans for the future of IDEs for Coq can be found in Coq CEP 68 leading to this proposal issue.

New maintainer: looking for volunteers

To volunteer, please respond to this GitHub issue with a brief motivation and summary of relevant experience for becoming a CoqIDE maintainer. As part of their reply to this issue, volunteers are encouraged to briefly present their short-term and long-term plans for CoqIDE and how long they think they will remain active on CoqIDE maintenance. However, this won't be considered as a commitment, as plans and priorities can evolve based on the context and personal circumstances. The maintainer(s) will be selected from the issue responders by the Coq core team and Coq-community organization owners. Responders not selected will still be encouraged to contribute to CoqIDE in collaboration with the new maintainer(s) and other contributors.

Anyone else planning to get involved as an active and regular contributor to the CoqIDE project is also welcome to make themselves known in this GitHub issue and to briefly present which improvements and changes they plan to propose.