Document CIMTool history

[Sveino]

CIMTool has a very long history. I think it is very important to keep the provenance of the tool development, particularly to protect any Intellectual properties (IP). I could not find the original CIMTool website nor Google User group.

Some relevant source are: https://github.com/[arnolddevos/AboutCIMTool](https://github.com/arnolddevos/AboutCIMTool/tree/master)/tree/master

We have the GitHub repo: https://github.com/arnolddevos/CIMTool

But this site does not work http://wiki.cimtool.org/index.html

However, I think we can use @arnolddevos and Margaret and other CIM members. I do not think we need the full details, but we should have when the first version was available and when key new functionality was added.

[tviegut]

@Sveino : Let me attempt to answer a few of your questions and perhaps provide some background to use as a "baseline".
From there we can determine what next steps may be needed:

• Margaret and I had reached out to Arnold five years ago when I volunteered to pick up development again since things had been dormant for many years. He was fine with that and it may be that Margaret (who reached out on behalf of us initially) may have an email confirming as such but I would need to lean on her for that.
• Shortly thereafter, he reached back out to see if we needed his original site (https://wiki.cimtool.org) anymore as he no longer wanted to maintain it and keep it around. I went ahead and archived the entire site at the time and have that locally saved and backed up so I would have some level of providence of what was there.
• You may not have noticed the release history but at the time I created the new public facing website I aggregated all historical release notes up to that point in time. I have simply added to it since then with the entire release history available on the new website. You can review that here: Release Notes These go back literally years and at the time I painstakingly recorded the dates alongside the years as far back as they were available (i.e. to 1.1.2 in 2007 or 2008 ... the first several release notes did not have dates if I recall). So, we have some aspects of povidence I think in this area.
• You reference the Google Group. I took that over and have retained for "archival" purposes. You will see that reference here with an appropriate link to the archive. I also posted a final announcement at the time that it would no longer be monitored and directed them to our new GitHub Discussions board for CIMTool:
  
• Finally, there is Eclipse based documentation. I simply haven't had time to keep it current so that should be noted.
  

In any event, this should provide you with some context by way of providence and what may or may not be available.k

[Sveino]

This is super job @tviegut. I did not express myself well. I was thinking we could get info from Margaret and Arnold about the history before release 1.1.2.
Not necessary release by release, but a bit of the background and when first version, maybe 0.1 was published and used. I think it is good to have this information available - for the next generation of users.