Questions about posting/removing packages on the site

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I have questions about posting / removing packages on the site.

  • Way (way) back when, portions of this site were established by transferring packages from a list-server approach. In that transition, packages ended up having a URL to the effect "... /project/PROJECTNAME" In the current set up, packages have a URL to the effect ".../node/NODENUMBER". The former PROJECTNAME approach does not work as effectively with Tony's wonderfully effective project updater routines (https://www.wavemetrics.com/project/Updater) because the older project format has no NODENUMBER to encode in the header of a procedure file. How should someone go about transitioning an older PROJECNAME posting to the newer NODENUMBER approach? Is this a case of making contact with someone on a case-by-case basis? Is it better simply to (re)post the project as a new development (and delete/kill/remove the older one -- see next question)?
  • My recollection and perhaps even my records suggest that Wavemetrics has been reluctant to remove packages from this site. Can we (developers) get some basic guidelines on this policy? Especially, is there any option for a package developer to petition successfully to remove their package from listing on this site?

It is a sign of the times that, as the old guard at WM is retiring, so too are my efforts in IP waning. I would like to do a reasonable job to clean up loose ends, effectively so that my dead wood is not left for someone else to clear (when I am long since gone).