This is just me, but I would have written the 2000 word article, and made it it a md file on github as future home of the code you're going to drop. Then link i

This is just me, but I would have written the 2000 word article, and made it it a md file on github as future home of the code you're going to drop. Then link it from the 950 word IEEE article. Then you'd already have a crystallization point for future work.