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> Don't clean & organize!

FWIW I basically did this: My thesis numbers were run on a branch based on the unstable version of an upstream project that was going through a major refactoring. I took a tarball of the VCS tree at that point in time and posted it online. Over the years 3-4 people have asked for the tarball; nobody has ever come back to me with any more questions. I can only assume they gave up trying to make it work in despair.

I think I tried to build it a couple of years ago, and it wouldn't even build because gcc has gotten a lot more strict than it used to be (and the upstream project has -Werror, so any warnings break the compilation).

I think it's definitely worth doing, but I think you need to be realistic about how much impact that kind of "publishing" is really going to have.