Hey Lee:
I downloaded it for some quick and dirty testing. This miner requires cuda 9 and the Community Release is at 8:
m1@Testy:~/Downloads/nevermore-linux$ ./ccminer
./ccminer: error while loading shared libraries: libcudart.so.9.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Since I have been out of the loop for a while, I don't know where we are with upgrading cuda versions.
Have you tried the top link on that page (not the source tarballs)? It might be precompiled with statically compiled cuda libraries.
As for the next release I think we should go with Cuda 9. Most of the miners support Cuda 9 I believe. And those that don't, seems their devs are living in stone age and probably are not actively developed anymore and don't deserve to be included

Correct me if I'm wrong but there seems to be enough miners for all algos that will play nicely with cuda 9. Any particular (highly used) miner still stuck in stone age?