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@@ -6,213 +6,15 @@ breakage on our Continuous Integration (CI) platforms *before* integration,
 so as to ensure better robustness and catch problems as early as possible.
 These tests include the compilation of several external libraries / plugins.
 
-This document contains information for both external library / plugin authors,
-who might be interested in having their development tested, and for Coq
-developers / contributors, who must ensure that they don't break these
-external developments accidentally.
+This README is split on two specific documents:
 
-*Remark:* the CI policy outlined in this document is susceptible to evolve and
-specific accommodations are of course possible.
+- [README-users.md](./README-users.md) which contains information for
+  authors of external libraries and plugins who might be interested in
+  having their development tested in our CI system.
 
-Information for external library / plugin authors
--------------------------------------------------
+- [README-developers.md](./README-developers.md) for Coq developers /
+  contributors, who must ensure that they don't break these external
+  developments accidentally.
 
-You are encouraged to consider submitting your development for addition to
-our CI. This means that:
-
-- Any time that a proposed change is breaking your development, Coq developers
-  will send you patches to adapt it or, at the very least, will work with you
-  to see how to adapt it.
-
-On the condition that:
-
-- At the time of the submission, your development works with Coq's
-  `master` branch.
-
-- Your development is publicly available in a git repository and we can easily
-  send patches to you (e.g. through pull / merge requests).
-
-- You react in a timely manner to discuss / integrate those patches.
-
-- You do not push, to the branches that we test, commits that haven't been
-  first tested to compile with the corresponding branch(es) of Coq.
-
-- You maintain a reasonable build time for your development, or you provide
-  a "lite" target that we can use.
-
-In case you forget to comply with these last three conditions, we would reach
-out to you and give you a 30-day grace period during which your development
-would be moved into our "allow failure" category. At the end of the grace
-period, in the absence of progress, the development would be removed from our
-CI.
-
-### Add your development by submitting a pull request
-
-Add a new `ci-mydev.sh` script to [`dev/ci`](.); set the corresponding
-variables in [`ci-basic-overlay.sh`](ci-basic-overlay.sh); add the
-corresponding target to [`Makefile.ci`](../../Makefile.ci) and a new job to
-[`.gitlab-ci.yml`](../../.gitlab-ci.yml) so that this new target is run.
-Have a look at [#7656](https://github.com/coq/coq/pull/7656/files) for an
-example. **Do not hesitate to submit an incomplete pull request if you need
-help to finish it.**
-
-You may also be interested in having your development tested in our
-performance benchmark. Currently this is done by providing an OPAM package
-in https://github.com/coq/opam-coq-archive and opening an issue at
-https://github.com/coq/coq-bench/issues.
-
-### Recommended branching policy.
-
-It is sometimes the case that you will need to maintain a branch of
-your development for particular Coq versions. This is in fact very
-likely if your development includes a Coq ML plugin.
-
-We thus recommend a branching convention that mirrors Coq's branching
-policy. Then, you would have a `master` branch that follows Coq's
-`master`, a `v8.8` branch that works with Coq's `v8.8` branch and so
-on.
-
-This convention will be supported by tools in the future to make some
-developer commands work more seamlessly.
-
-Information for developers
---------------------------
-
-When you submit a pull request (PR) on Coq GitHub repository, this will
-automatically launch a battery of CI tests. The PR will not be integrated
-unless these tests pass.
-
-We are currently running tests on the following platforms:
-
-- GitLab CI is the main CI platform. It tests the compilation of Coq,
-  of the documentation, and of CoqIDE on Linux with several versions
-  of OCaml and with warnings as errors; it runs the test-suite and
-  tests the compilation of several external developments.
-
-- Travis CI is used to test the compilation of Coq and run the test-suite on
-  macOS. It also runs a linter that checks whitespace discipline. A
-  [pre-commit hook](../tools/pre-commit) is automatically installed by
-  `./configure`. It should allow complying with this discipline without pain.
-
-- AppVeyor is used to test the compilation of Coq and run the test-suite on
-  Windows.
-
-You can anticipate the results of most of these tests prior to submitting your
-PR by running GitLab CI on your private branches. To do so follow these steps:
-
-1. Log into GitLab CI (the easiest way is to sign in with your GitHub account).
-2. Click on "New Project".
-3. Choose "CI / CD for external repository" then click on "GitHub".
-4. Find your fork of the Coq repository and click on "Connect".
-5. If GitLab did not do so automatically, [enable the Container Registry](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/container_registry.html#enable-the-container-registry-for-your-project).
-6. You are encouraged to go to the CI / CD general settings and increase the
-   timeout from 1h to 2h for better reliability.
-
-Now everytime you push (including force-push unless you changed the default
-GitLab setting) to your fork on GitHub, it will be synchronized on GitLab and
-CI will be run. You will receive an e-mail with a report of the failures if
-there are some.
-
-You can also run one CI target locally (using `make ci-somedev`).
-
-See also [`test-suite/README.md`](../../test-suite/README.md) for information about adding new tests to the test-suite.
-
-### Breaking changes
-
-When your PR breaks an external project we test in our CI, you must prepare a
-patch (or ask someone to prepare a patch) to fix the project:
-
-1. Fork the external project, create a new branch, push a commit adapting
-   the project to your changes.
-2. Test your pull request with your adapted version of the external project by
-   adding an overlay file to your pull request (cf.
-   [`dev/ci/user-overlays/README.md`](user-overlays/README.md)).
-3. Fixes to external libraries (pure Coq projects) *must* be backward
-   compatible (i.e. they should also work with the development version of Coq,
-   and the latest stable version). This will allow you to open a PR on the
-   external project repository to have your changes merged *before* your PR on
-   Coq can be integrated.
-
-   On the other hand, patches to plugins (projects linking to the Coq ML API)
-   can very rarely be made backward compatible and plugins we test will
-   generally have a dedicated branch per Coq version.
-   You can still open a pull request but the merging will be requested by the
-   developer who merges the PR on Coq. There are plans to improve this, cf.
-   [#6724](https://github.com/coq/coq/issues/6724).
-
-Moreover your PR must absolutely update the [`CHANGES.md`](../../CHANGES.md) file.
-
-Advanced GitLab CI information
-------------------------------
-
-GitLab CI is set up to use the "build artifact" feature to avoid
-rebuilding Coq. In one job, Coq is built with `./configure -prefix _install_ci`
-and `make install` is run, then the `_install_ci` directory
-persists to and is used by the next jobs.
-
-### Artifacts
-
-Build artifacts from GitLab can be linked / downloaded in a systematic
-way, see [GitLab's documentation](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/pipelines/job_artifacts.html#downloading-the-latest-job-artifacts)
-for more information. For example, to access the documentation of the
-`master` branch, you can do:
-
-https://gitlab.com/coq/coq/-/jobs/artifacts/master/file/_install_ci/share/doc/coq/sphinx/html/index.html?job=doc:refman
-
-Browsing artifacts is also possible:
-https://gitlab.com/coq/coq/-/jobs/artifacts/master/browse/_install_ci/?job=build:base
-
-Above, you can replace `master` and `job` by the desired GitLab branch and job name.
-
-Currently available artifacts are:
-
-- the Coq executables and stdlib, in four copies varying in
-  architecture and OCaml version used to build Coq:
-  https://gitlab.com/coq/coq/-/jobs/artifacts/master/browse/_install_ci/?job=build:base
-
-  Additionally, an experimental Dune build is provided:
-  https://gitlab.com/coq/coq/-/jobs/artifacts/master/browse/_build/?job=build:edge:dune:dev
-
-- the Coq documentation, built in the `doc:*` jobs. When submitting
-  a documentation PR, this can help reviewers checking the rendered result:
-
-  + Coq's Reference Manual [master branch]
-    https://gitlab.com/coq/coq/-/jobs/artifacts/master/file/_install_ci/share/doc/coq/sphinx/html/index.html?job=doc:refman
-  + Coq's Standard Library Documentation [master branch]
-    https://gitlab.com/coq/coq/-/jobs/artifacts/master/file/_install_ci/share/doc/coq/html/stdlib/index.html?job=build:base
-  + Coq's ML API Documentation [master branch]
-    https://gitlab.com/coq/coq/-/jobs/artifacts/master/file/_build/default/_doc/_html/index.html?job=doc:ml-api:odoc
-
-### GitLab and Windows
-
-If your repository has access to runners tagged `windows`, setting the
-secret variable `WINDOWS` to `enabled` will add jobs building Windows
-versions of Coq (32bit and 64bit).
-
-If the secret variable `WINDOWS` is set to `enabled_all_addons`,
-an extended set of addons will be added to the Windows installer.
-This leads to a considerable runtime in CI so this is not enabled
-by default for pipelines for pull requests.
-
-The Windows jobs are enabled on Coq's repository, where pipelines for
-pull requests run.
-
-### GitLab and Docker
-
-System and opam packages are installed in a Docker image. The image is
-automatically built and uploaded to your GitLab registry, and is
-loaded by subsequent jobs.
-
-**IMPORTANT**: When updating Coq's CI docker image, you must modify
-the `CACHEKEY` variable in [`.gitlab-ci.yml`](../../.gitlab-ci.yml)
-and [`Dockerfile`](docker/bionic_coq/Dockerfile)
-
-The Docker building job reuses the uploaded image if it is available,
-but if you wish to save more time you can skip the job by setting
-`SKIP_DOCKER` to `true`.
-
-This means you will need to change its value when the Docker image
-needs to be updated. You can do so for a single pipeline by starting
-it through the web interface.
-
-See also [`docker/README.md`](docker/README.md).
+*Remark:* the CI policy outlined in these documents is susceptible to
+evolve and specific accommodations are of course possible.