Some packages under consideration have no versioned archives and no git tag

[pombredanne]

Some packages under consideration have no versioned archives and no git tag. What do we do when we only have a stream of commits? Should we take some arbitrary date-based snapshots?

[armijnhemel]

Do you have an example? Are these packages that are for example packaged by a distribution? If that is the case, then I would simply take the same snapshots as distributions use.

[pombredanne]

@keshav-space do you have examples?

[armijnhemel]

I do have an example of a package that hasn't had an actual release in 6.5 years, but which is actively developed:

https://github.com/facebook/redex

Another one (10 years without releases but seeing active development): https://github.com/OpenXcom/OpenXcom

but these aren't very mainstream packages AFAIK.

[pombredanne]

For instance http://www.aleph1.co.uk/gitweb/?p=yaffs2.git;a=tags only has a few old outdated tags, and does not version things

[keshav-space]

some more here https://git.openwrt.org/project/libubox.git https://git.openwrt.org/project/procd.git

[armijnhemel]

some more here https://git.openwrt.org/project/libubox.git https://git.openwrt.org/project/procd.git

For these I would just take what OpenWrt packages in a recent release or what OpenWrt has historically packaged.

A (not so accurate) estimate for libubox:

$ git log --follow ./package/libs/libubox/Makefile | grep -i 'git head'  | wc -l
34

but if you look at what was used in the actual releases it is probably fewer.

[armijnhemel]

For instance http://www.aleph1.co.uk/gitweb/?p=yaffs2.git;a=tags only has a few old outdated tags, and does not version things

Here I would go with the versions that Android used to ship (they no longer seem to).