I think it would be a good idea to not upload outdated drivers to Hobbes
I agree. HOBBES should be for current software.
About 20 years ago, a lot of that stuff was purged from HOBBES, to free up space for new stuff. Now, you are cluttering it up, by putting it back.
I think that drivers should be preserved in all versions
At least you should only upload, known good versions. Uploading all versions of something is simply making it more difficult for those who need that stuff, because they then need to sort out that good from the bad. I am pretty sure that you can't make that call.
I'm concern these days that web sites are going offline, OS/2 related files are disappearing from the internet and sometimes not even the Wayback machine had them.
Unfortunately, this is true, but that may not be all bad. There comes a time when it is time to update.
The bottom line is, that if you really think it is important to archive all of that stuff, do it at OS2WORLD. HOBBES is a teaching tool, that happens to serve the OS/2 community. Don't mess that up. Universities are having enough trouble getting sufficient funding for more important things, and storing antique software could be hard to justify, when the bean counters come calling. I am pretty sure that anybody who investigates the value of the HOBBES content, will not be impressed by obsolete software, that is simply taking up disk space. It could, easily, be used as an excuse to close the service.
I don't think that you are to blame for the clogged up incoming directory. But from what I heard, the automatic procedure is no longer in place and therefore, a human being has to move that stuff to the final destination. And with that many files, I think the motivation of that human being is going to severly drop.
As I understand it, there never was an automatic procedure. It is a project for some student, who first needs to learn what is to be done, then they need to write a procedure to do it, then test that, then do it. That is one of the reasons why the update procedure has been somewhat inconsistent, over the years (Sometimes, caps are accepted, and sometimes not. Sometimes somebody does it, and sometimes that course isn't held in that semester). Human motivation is to pass the course. One problem is that the course, itself, may become obsolete, and that would automatically remove the service.