Totally broken about atom

[DeeDeeG]

Speaking as someone somewhat familiar with this repo/code:

Some incompatibility with a few ide-* packages was a known issue from the Electron 11 upgrade.

The package upload/download issue is because the website atom.io has been flaky, and that website/server hosts the package registry and API for Atom packages.

If it were me, I would be more conservative and base the final release on Electron 9, since Electron 11 only made it to Atom Beta and didn't get super wide testing, had the few known issues such as with the ide-* packages, and just because putting out a "sunset" message should likely be done as the smallest change possible. I would have suggested this be done against the 1.60-releases branch (the branch from the previous stable Atom release).

I can see how easy it would be to just publish from master and not flag the Electron 11 bump as a problem for some users. This repo and its tooling are hard to work with. It's a huge code-base to be familiar with if you're not actively knee-deep in it on the daily. (And it'd be a bit awkward to leave out some large amount of effort and PRs which various people have contributed to master branch after 1.60.0 Stable, without including them in the final Atom Stable.) I do not believe it was malicious or a deliberate "sabotage" FWIW, I think it was just an oversight and/or not being conservative around the Electron 11 bump promoting to Stable from master branch and Beta.

If you get the point of the sunset message (I think we all do), I guess a workaround could be to disable automatic updates and use the old 1.60.x stable version. Particularly if you need those ide packages.

[nreef12]

I recommend switching to Photon, it's a community fork of Atom which fixes a lot of things and keeps Atom going

[LouieTian0209]

I recommend switching to Photon, it's a community fork of Atom which fixes a lot of things and keeps Atom going

I'm assuming you are talking about Pulsar?

[nreef12]

I recommend switching to Photon, it's a community fork of Atom which fixes a lot of things and keeps Atom going

I'm assuming you are talking about Pulsar?

Yes lmao :P