It's not really clear to me why you can't publish it now, if your plan is to open-source it. Is there some proprietary code that needs to be removed first? Or are you just concerned that the code is "messy" now? If the latter, I don't think this should stop the process. In any case, as an aside, if you do open-source it, I'll add my vote to the proposal (note that this isn't a promise of long term support, that would depend on future progress).